I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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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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Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.
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Lines are very difficult to learn.
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Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
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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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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. ‘I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on… ‘ And I’ve got blinds in my flat!
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We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
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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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Live a life less ordinary.
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Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
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I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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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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New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.
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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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I’m not an overnight success. I’ve been doing it for 12 years. It’s been lovely and varied so far.
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