Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

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• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  

  Barry Bostwick
  • Chance
  • Production
  • Number

• You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Sports
  • Car
  • Driving

• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Up
  • Live
  • Country

• In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dumb
  • Get

• I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Twitter
  • Commercial
  • Applications

• Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Theater

• The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • People
  • Country
  • Gun

• But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.

  

  Origen
  • Wise
  • Word
  • Him

• If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Live
  • You
  • Lived

• My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

  

  Vern Buchanan
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Sports

• Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Mind
  • Support

• I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.

  

  Rachel Lambert Mellon
  • People
  • Done
  • Know

• So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Great
  • Man

• Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Package

• I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Art
  • Dog
  • Rain

• I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Crazy
  • Got
  • Belt

• I met the man of my dreams at a gym, and then we got married in Vegas - because we're classy. When you meet at a gym, where else do you get married?

  

  Megan Hilty
  • Gym
  • Vegas
  • Classy

• I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Color

• My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre.

  

  Andy Garcia
  • Music
  • Community
  • Theatre

• I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

  

  Benedict Cumberbatch
  • Theatre