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Benedict Cumberbatch quotes
“Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.”
— 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
“I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I love doing impersonations of people.”
— 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'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
“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
“The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“When are you ever settled enough to have kids?”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf'... And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.”
— 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
“There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.”
— 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
“Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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