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Benedict Cumberbatch quotes
“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
“Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.”
— 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
“I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I was happy as an only child, but I've always wanted to be part of a bigger family.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“Lines are very difficult to learn.”
— 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
“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
“Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.”
— 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
“'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.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new one said, 'Why aren't you using your family name? It's a real attention-grabber.' I worried, 'How much is it going to cost to put my name in lights?' But then I decided that's not my problem.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.”
— 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
“There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I have actual acting scars.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“I was brought up in a world of privilege.”
— 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
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