Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 19, 1976

I have actual acting scars.

Benedict Cumberbatch

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

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

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Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.

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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

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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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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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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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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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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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I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

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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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I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.

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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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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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'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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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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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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