I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ]. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It's an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who's likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He's funny… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm not one for doing the children's party version: "Hi, I'm a character in a movie and now I'm in reality!" I… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
One of the first roles I had on stage was with a brilliant director in a brilliant play with a brilliant cast,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I'd love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I've gone up two suit sizes. The character I'm playing, he's strong, I can say that much. I've changed my physique a… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
[Role of Dr.Strange] gives me an excuse as an actor to be learning with my character, which is something you can do… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
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… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
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… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me,… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
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![“It's an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who's likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He's funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It's a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2b6/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_arcs_it-s-an-interesting-arc-you-start-with-a_1156743.jpg)
![“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f3e/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_accounts_i-had-to-imagine-myself-into-certain-asp_359165.jpg)
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![“I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/afb/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_character_i-don-t-wear-a-mask-i-don-t-have-a-suit_2888662.jpg)
![“[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/50d/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_character_stephen-strange-is-less-strange-than-oth_3121056.jpg)
![“[Role of Dr.Strange] gives me an excuse as an actor to be learning with my character, which is something you can do authentically - I'm not a martial arts expert, I'm certainly no sorcerer, so all these things, the movement of the body, the physicality, the changes he goes through mentally and…” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/43a/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_actors_role-of-dr-strange-gives-me-an-excuse-as_2506107.jpg)
![“[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.” quote by Benedict Cumberbatch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cd6/benedict-cumberbatch-1156_bits_while-voicing-cartoons-you-have-to-lose_125725.jpg)
