Career Quote by Benedict Cumberbatch

I was often getting hired to play sociopaths and psychopaths and stuff, which is really funny.

— Brady Corbet

I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly.

— Jeremy Irons

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

— Rachel Dratch

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am.…

— Fairuza Balk

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

— Miranda Otto

I was trained as a straight dramatist.

— Josh Gad

Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion.

— Marilyn Monroe

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

— Olivia Wilde

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

— Helen Garner

I was really serious about being an actress. I was playing young female characters and not feeling very connected to them.

— Marielle Heller

We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

— Flea