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 am the protector of all lives. I am present even before the creation. I am prime God.
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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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I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
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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I just don't talk about who I'm going out with, that's it. It's an odd thing to sit around describing yourself to 10 different people every 5 minutes yet it's kind of therapeutic in a way.
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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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A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock 'n roll, hosting, acting - it's the same thing.
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American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.
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Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which connect people.
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I feel like when I say something sad, I mean it.
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Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.
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Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
