I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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Live a life less ordinary.
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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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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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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.
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You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
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[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
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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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Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A
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Actor 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.
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You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.
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There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.
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I’m very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I’ll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company forward.
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I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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It still makes me giggle that I’m paid to act.
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I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
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