We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
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.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
-
-
The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
Live a life less ordinary.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
Maybe it’s just getting older, but I don’t want to miss things.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
I struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
I’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 CUMBERBATCH -
I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They’re about other people.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH -
That’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH