Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes:
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
Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.
Benedict Cumberbatch
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Lines are very difficult to learn.
Benedict Cumberbatch
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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‘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
Source: Hello Magazine
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
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
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
Benedict Cumberbatch
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
Benedict Cumberbatch
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
Benedict Cumberbatch
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
Benedict Cumberbatch
I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
Benedict Cumberbatch
I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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
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
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
Benedict Cumberbatch