Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
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When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don't really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.
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I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
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When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
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My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.
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One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
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Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.