Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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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 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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'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.
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.
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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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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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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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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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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'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.
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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 love doing impersonations of people.
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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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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 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.
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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.