Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSomeone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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 CUMBERBATCHLooking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHUpper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhat makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHFor brain surgeons it’s particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’s no shame in stealing – any actor who says he doesn’t is lying. You steal from everything.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI 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 CUMBERBATCHPeople’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHAny irrational fears?no, i’m quite a rationalist. i’m not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and ’90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHAll the backstories are there but not talked about.
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 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.
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