It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It’s not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I’ve had the test for contact lenses, but I haven’t found a half-day where I can go to the optician.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
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I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
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I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
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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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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
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Honestly, it’s very satisfying, and I’m very, very happy about how successful the last few years have been… It’s great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I’m enjoying now.
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