We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWe look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine you think science will prevail but it’s not always that way.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI don’t live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I’m in the situation where it’s been given to me, but I’m very conscious of what is wasteful.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHIt’s the same thing, I think, whether it’s breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWe should have a conversation when we hang up.
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 CUMBERBATCHWhen are you ever settled enough to have kids?
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHWhen you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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 love doing impersonations of people.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHLines are very difficult to learn.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHThe more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
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 CUMBERBATCHWhen you’re a kid, ‘Star Trek’ is a slower burn. It’s funny, it’s entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it – which is its universal appeal, I think.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH