I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHAs an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
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I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
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Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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We should have a conversation when we hang up.
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When you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
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I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
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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.
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This 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.
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I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
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I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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If I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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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.
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I 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.
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Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.
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