People always want to knock you when you’re up.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHPeople always want to knock you when you’re up.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMy massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHBecause reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHDoctor Strange is an origin story so there’s a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHYou can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhen I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I’ve suddenly realised it is one of life’s joys.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI keep myself amused and others confused
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhen you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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 CUMBERBATCHIt’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf 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