• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

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

Benedict Cumberbatch

Related Topics

EnoughWorld

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

• 

  I love doing impersonations of people.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  ImpersonationLovePeople
• 

  If you can’t jump on board when the ride’s going past that’s it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  BoardsPastTrying
• 

  Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It’s a miracle, it is magic.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  MagicMiracleNhs
• 

  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.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  BarsPlayReal
• 

  You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it’s almost inhuman. So, that’s been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  BoysPlayPractice
• 

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

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  SillyTeacherVoice
• 

  I’ve always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  ExercisePlaySpy
• 

  The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they’re foreigners or different from us.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  DifferentIgnoreLessonPeople
• 

  Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they’ve been really good fun.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  FunGood Fun
• 

  It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  GlimpseOutsidePeopleRealize
• 

  There are other people who don’t mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good – real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  PeopleRealThinking
• 

  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.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  ActorsKevinThinking
• 

  I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  AbleActorsOpportunity
• 

  An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that’s what happens to all surgeons, I think. There’s a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  DoctorSelfThinking
• 

  Scott 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 CUMBERBATCH
  CharacterIdentityStrong
• 

  I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

  BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
  ActorsTheatreWant