Top 100 Quotes About Cumberbatch
#1. 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
#2. so where does the cumberbatch go?" As
J.R. Ward
#3. My favorite name of a fandom is Benedict Cumberbatch's - 'the Cumberbatches' is just the best name.
James McAvoy
#4. 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
#5. 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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#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Let's just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'
Conan O'Brien
#10. Or we can settle in and watch every single episode of Sherlock." "Now you're talking." Benedict Cumberbatch is my homeboy.
Autumn Doughton
#11. CUSTOMER: I'd like to buy this audiobook.
BOOKSELLER: Great.
CUSTOMER: Only, I don't really like this narrator.
BOOKSELLER: Oh.
CUSTOMER: Do you have a selection of narrators to choose from? Ideally, I'd like Benedict Cumberbatch
Jen Campbell
#12. 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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#13. Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.
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#14. 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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#15. 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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#16. 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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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. [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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#24. Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
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#25. 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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#27. 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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#29. 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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#30. 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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#31. If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
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#35. Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. 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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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. 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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#48. 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
#49. 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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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
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#54. 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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#55. Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
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#56. 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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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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#62. There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. 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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#68. It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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#69. 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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#71. '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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#73. I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.
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#74. 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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#76. Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
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#77. I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson,
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#78. Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
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#79. 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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#80. We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
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#81. 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
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#82. 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.
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#84. 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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#85. 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.
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#87. 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.
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#88. I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
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#91. 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 look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
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#92. Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.
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#94. I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on ... ' And I've got blinds in my flat!
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#95. There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.
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#97. 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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#98. I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?
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#99. 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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#100. 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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