Top 100 Cumberbatch's Quotes
#1. Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.
Caitlin Moran
#2. My favorite name of a fandom is Benedict Cumberbatch's - 'the Cumberbatches' is just the best name.
James McAvoy
#3. It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying.
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#5. I've said for quite a long time I'd like him to have a different haircut. I quite like my hair being short. You know, we've been away two years, let's f*** around with his outfit, let's f*** around with his haircut, let's do something different.
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#6. 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 its universal appeal, I think.
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#7. I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.
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#8. I like to think that we're revolving on this planet and revolving through the galaxy. I love having context that's so much bigger than I can fathom. It's fantastic to realise how insignificant you are.
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#9. There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
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#11. There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.
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#12. I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
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#15. Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
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#16. You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.
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#17. What a tragic waste o engagement (selfies). Enjoy the moment. Do something more worthwhile with your time, anything. Stare out the window and think about life.
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#18. I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own - they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.
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#19. Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.
Neil Patrick Harris
#20. Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.
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#21. I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U.K., 'cause it's kind of fun.
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#22. There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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#23. The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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#24. Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
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#25. 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.'
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#27. 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.
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#28. When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
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#29. 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 to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.
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#30. Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock's posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.
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#31. It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.
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#32. What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.
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#33. 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.'
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#34. 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 notice, enjoy and help each other.
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#36. 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 the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.
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#37. I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
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#38. 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.
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#39. Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.
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#40. 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 who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
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#41. I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books.
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#42. Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
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#43. I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.
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#44. [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 wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.
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#46. I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.
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#47. The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
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#48. Let's just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'
Conan O'Brien
#49. 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 sense of guilt that it's not fair that others aren't doing exactly what you're doing. I do have that.
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#50. We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It's not just the guy with guns - it's the guy with brains.
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#51. I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.
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#53. My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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#54. I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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#55. I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
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#56. If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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#57. 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 regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.
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#58. 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!
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#60. 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.
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#61. I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
Rainbow Rowell
#63. I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.
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#64. Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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#65. so where does the cumberbatch go?" As
J.R. Ward
#67. [While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.
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#68. People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
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#69. There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.
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#70. I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
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#72. I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
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#73. Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I've done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it's realizing I am part of the world around me.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.
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#76. If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.
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#77. The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
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#78. Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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#79. I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
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#80. Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.
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#81. I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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#82. 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.
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#83. 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 of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.
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#84. I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.
Lara Pulver
#86. I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.
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#87. There's a lot of Sherlock love in here. In many ways, this book might as well be called 'Deduce THIS, Sexlock Holmes!' with a picture of me licking his meerschaum, cross-eyed and screaming.
Caitlin Moran
#89. 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 smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.
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#90. I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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#91. I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
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#92. I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover.
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#94. I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
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#95. If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.
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#96. Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
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#98. I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.
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#99. I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.
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#100. Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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