My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMy massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.
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 CUMBERBATCHI was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWriting in French is one of my ambitions. I’d like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I’d like to know.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying ‘Hi’ is going to be even more difficult because they won’t know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI want to be better at staying connected.
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 CUMBERBATCHLooking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI struggle to learn by rote. I’ve had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHBeing someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he’s materialistic.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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