Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

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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…
• If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is…
• Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to…
• My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The…
• One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you…
• To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it…
• When 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…
• When 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…
• I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.
• The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front…
• Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward…
• I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no…
• I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of…
• I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of…
• [on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and…
• [on Martin Freeman playing Bilbo Baggins] It was great. I got to hang out with him, and I kept a straight face for a bit…
• I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full…
• Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theological…
• Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.
• 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.

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