Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Live a life less ordinary.
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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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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 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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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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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 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 wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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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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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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I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
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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 drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.
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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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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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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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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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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'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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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.