This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven’t really experienced any of that. Everyone’s been really happy for me, which is really, really great.
Any irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.
Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They’re all “physically inhabited,” for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.
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.
[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.
I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/youd-have-to-be-pretty-hard-nosed-not-to-feel-some.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/doctor-strange-gets-scraped-off-the-floor-and-then.jpg)
![Benedict Cumberbatch Quote - [Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/sherlock-holmes-has-moved-from-being-someone-who-w.jpg)
