black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Silly Teacher Voice
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

People Thinking Worry
Laughing and crying are really similar – what happens to your body. It’s a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Cry Laughing Musician
The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Enough World
It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he’s doing all right and then you realise that there’s one massive lesson to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Doctor Lesson Thinking
You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Able Order Running
I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, “Don’t punish yourself. You’re going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don’t live in guilt and regret.”
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fun Regret Teacher
[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.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Actor Challenges Gymnastics
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he’s dealing with such serious issues.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Humor Issues Sense Serious
I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Drag Needs Stuff
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Affection Charming More Persons
We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Brain Gun Guy Hero
I’d shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it’s the same with that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Discipline Reading Sports
Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don’t think he’s one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Angel Mean Thinking
There’s another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Eye Promotion Weight
We’re living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

Fighting Reality War

I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I’m sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It’s an amazing discipline.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes