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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I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
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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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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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 you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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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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 best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
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Live a life less ordinary.
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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.