Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.

It's the same thing, I think, whether it's breathing or meditation or yoga. And running is a great way of doing it.

It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn.

It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition.

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 not repeating myself.

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

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 say.

I think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas.

I have actual acting scars.

[Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.

I feel that TV and film feed off each other well. It's more in the perception of the viewer than it is of the actor.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

I was never geeky about anything.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think "Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.

I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received.

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'

I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying something, especially if it has to do with the work.

Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

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 how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!

I have memories of clouds whisking by while sitting in the pushchair on the roof of my parents' flat. I loved it! I just loved staring at the clouds and dreaming away.

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.