I’m excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCHI’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes
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I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.
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Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.
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What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.
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It’s one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it’s a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there’s the whole chapter before where he’s the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It’s fantastic.
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I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. In fact I’m a f**king fantastic lover.
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I genuinely don’t know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
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I’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.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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I have actual acting scars.
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I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
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Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.
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I’m interested in art for all. I don’t want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That’s really what I crave, and I always have done.
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Kevin Feige said to me: “I don’t think we’ve ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally.” I’ll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.
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I’m quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].
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