black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 Cumberbatch

I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Crazy Fun Years
Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Daily Life Mundane Taken
[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I’ve played. He’s lost the power to love, which doesn’t make him a nasty person. I just think he’s closed-off.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Nasty Thinking
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Butterfly Long Obsessed
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Humble Mirror Thinking
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Book Family Friends Moments Quiet
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Hipster Poor Ridiculous
We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brain Gun Guy Hero
There’s a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctors Effort Superhero
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Expectations Mad People
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Glimpse Outside People Realize
I don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Luxury Mean Privilege
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Country Grim Reaper Motorbike
I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Perception Television Views Well
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Lying Shame
Doctor Strange is selfish but he’s still saving lives.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Saving Selfish

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes