black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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
When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Enough Kids Settled
It’s an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who’s likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He’s funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It’s a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors Interesting
Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Reality Sensual Strange
I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a “political exile,” as he calls himself.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Determination House Men
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Character Doctors Stories
There’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actors Lying Shame
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Kings Opposites Real
There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Bureaucracy Century Mediocrity
I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Always Giving Help Support Up
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
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Humor Issues Sense Serious
We should have a conversation when we hang up.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Conversation Hang People
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brought Privilege World
If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Boards Past Trying
If you can’t fail, you can never get better.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Better Fail Failing Get

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes