Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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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Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
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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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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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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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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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I love doing impersonations of people.
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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 have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
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I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
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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 want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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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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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
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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 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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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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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.