Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

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

Benedict Cumberbatch

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• I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Real
  • Soul

• I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Different
  • Sell
  • Turkey

• Money just draws flies.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • Just
  • Flies

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Doing
  • Animation

• In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
  • Work
  • Education
  • Respect

• Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Backwards
  • Check
  • Minorities

• For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Really

• We're not trying to make us live forever; we're not trying to even make us live significantly longer. What we're trying to do is extend the period of healthy life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Health
  • Things

• The first song I learned on the guitar was a Kenny Chesney song called 'What I Need to Do'; it was just an easy song to play... and it was really cool to see that come full-circle a few years later and have him record a song that I was part of.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Song
  • Cool
  • Guitar

• People don't like to make mistakes.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Like
  • Mistakes

• We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.

  

  Candice S. Miller
  • Change
  • Rules
  • Results

• In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • America
  • Amazing
  • Farm

• My father had the most amazing operatic voice, so I have a soft spot for that.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Amazing
  • Voice

• We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Never

• Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • High
  • Church
  • Now

• You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Night
  • Funny

• But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • She
  • Lost
  • Wife

• I'm not always thinking and working ... I think a leader has to really be a balanced, whole and healthy person personally in order to be the best leader on the job.

  

  Mike Duke
  • Persons
  • Leader
  • Jobs

• Making people laugh is what I really enjoy.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Laugh

• I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band

• I've always freelanced as an actor, and you always have to worry about the next paycheck. When I booked 'True Blood,' I promised myself I would take advantage of the fact that for the first time in my career, I could afford to turn down big money to go and do small, character-driven indies.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Time
  • Money
  • Character

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

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch