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It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.
I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.
There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.
I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.
[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think "Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.
Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.
As an actor, to be part of that story's [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I've enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I'm getting to have a go myself.
I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.
I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
I've done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].
'Benedict' means 'blessed.' My parents liked the sound of the name and felt slightly blessed because they'd been trying for a child for a very long time.
Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to know.
I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.