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I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself. — Benedict Cumberbatch

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It's not just the guy with guns - it's the guy with brains. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I keep myself amused and others confused — Benedict Cumberbatch

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious. — Benedict Cumberbatch

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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.' — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. — Benedict Cumberbatch

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful. — Caitlin Moran

Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting. — Benedict Cumberbatch

People always want to knock you when you're up. — Benedict Cumberbatch

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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 — Benedict Cumberbatch

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I can't stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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 Cumberbatch

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life. — Benedict Cumberbatch

It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route. — Benedict Cumberbatch

It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father. — Benedict Cumberbatch

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I was brought up in a world of privilege. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I have actual acting scars. — Benedict Cumberbatch

It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck. — Neil Patrick Harris

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that. — Benedict Cumberbatch

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I love doing impersonations of people. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Or we can settle in and watch every single episode of Sherlock." "Now you're talking." Benedict Cumberbatch is my homeboy. — Autumn Doughton

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning. — Benedict Cumberbatch

My favorite name of a fandom is Benedict Cumberbatch's - 'the Cumberbatches' is just the best name. — James McAvoy

I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need. — Benedict Cumberbatch

When are you ever settled enough to have kids? — Benedict Cumberbatch

Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned. — Benedict Cumberbatch

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything. — Benedict Cumberbatch

It's always important to have the blessing. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex! — Benedict Cumberbatch

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Live Life Less Ordinary — Benedict Cumberbatch

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. — Benedict Cumberbatch

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor. — Benedict Cumberbatch

[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

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? — Benedict Cumberbatch

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Lines are very difficult to learn. — Benedict Cumberbatch

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Let's just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.' — Conan O'Brien

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much. — Benedict Cumberbatch

All the backstories are there but not talked about. — Benedict Cumberbatch

so where does the cumberbatch go?" As — J.R. Ward