Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLooking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIf I’d had fame early on, I’d have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It’s more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLines are very difficult to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThere are things that are a given, that you’ve already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can’t be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLive a life less ordinary.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHSometimes being away, on location, I feel like I’m away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThat’s something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHAs an actor, to be part of that story’s [Marvel univerce ] terrific. I’ve enjoyed it so much as a fan and now I’m getting to have a go myself.
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 never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHMy first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan’s ‘The Browning Version,’ where my job was to make school-masters’ wives weep with recognition.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You’re talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can’t see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLanding the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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