Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 19, 1976

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

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Live a life less ordinary.

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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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.

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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

Benedict Cumberbatch

'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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I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig.

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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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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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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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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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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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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

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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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Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

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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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Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

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I was brought up in a world of privilege.

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