Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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 number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
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When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
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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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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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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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I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
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Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
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I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.
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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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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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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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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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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I love doing impersonations of people.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
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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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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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Live a life less ordinary.
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People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.