Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWe have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I keep myself amused and others confused
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
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The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.
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Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
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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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Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the ’60s and ’70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.
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Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it’s so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.
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I’m a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I’m all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
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