Live a life less ordinary.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLive a life less ordinary.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHScott 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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLines are very difficult to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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 CUMBERBATCHAnyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLooking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It’s an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It’s great. Yeah, I’m excited.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’d love to do a noir. I think Steve McQueen is so cool. But a classic film is a classic film, and perhaps the fantasy of being those characters should be left alone. You’re treading on very thin ice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThis 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 CUMBERBATCHI suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I’m ripped, doing something I wouldn’t normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH