Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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As an actor, you can't think about the end result or the fame; you just have to focus on the day you're in. You have no control over the finished product, what people will think of it, so all you have is the experience of making it, and you have to stay focused on that.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.
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Physically plain people are perfectly able to see physical beauty in others, while people who are morally maimed are blind to goodness and decency. They honestly think it doesn't exist.Oh, they know it exists all right. They just never know which people have it.
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Salutations
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It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.
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I would recommend all men in choosing a profession to avoid any that may require an apology at every turn; either an apology or else a somewhat violent assertion of right.
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I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned at least the right to relax.
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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Everyone knows the U.S. economy shouldn't be so reliant on consumption. More investments should be made.
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I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love to talk. I write a book every couple years, but it just takes everything out of me to get a book out.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
