I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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It’s difficult because nothing’s preordained by plan and you can’t control it. That’s one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it’s a meritocracy.
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Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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[on BBC’s Sherlock] It’s a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It’s a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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You 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.
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Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
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Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad’s performance of the book.
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You’d have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].
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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 think I’ve had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I’ve said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
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