black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Lovely Overnight Success Years
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Abnormal Appetite Wells
I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Assange Opinion Wells
I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Exercise Play Spy
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Enjoy Journey Others Treating
Live a life less ordinary.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brain Less Ordinary
[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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Certain Degrees Obsessed
I think it’s fair to say that, yeah, I’m playing Doctor Strange, I get there.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctors Strange Thinking
I think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Emotional Sometimes Thinking
One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Best Meritocracy 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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Care Crazy Doctor Ideal
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Careers Realised Trying
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hard Privacy Thing
What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Funny Ideas Knowing Things
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a ‘desert rats’ tank operator in the Second World War.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Grandfather Tanks War
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Gesture Hands Swings

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes