Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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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Live a life less ordinary.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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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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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
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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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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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Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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I love doing impersonations of people.
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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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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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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.