Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

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• I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
• I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
• I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
• Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
• Lines are very difficult to learn.
• Live a life less ordinary.
• My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
• New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would…
• Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
• The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
• The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
• There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
• We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
• When are you ever settled enough to have kids?
• When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.
• When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
• Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people…
• I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was…
• I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English…
• I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of…

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