I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHCumberbatch – it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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I was never geeky about anything.
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Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
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Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.
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You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it’s not all about him.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
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I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
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I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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