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You Quotes by Benedict Cumberbatch
- Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
- The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
- I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
- A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel…
- As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.
- Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
- Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
- I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
- The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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 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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