Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
Top 93 wise famous quotes and sayings by Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.
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.
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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 ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.
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?
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.
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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.
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.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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.
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.
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.
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.
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.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.