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You let things run in order t...

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

I'm aware of the power of loo...

I'm aware of the power of looks. I've wanted to play roles that have gone to much better-looking people and you just think 'Oh well, that's the pin up guy's an actor like my friend James Mcavoy, who's gorgeous on screen. I'm not that. But at least I don't have to worry about taking precious care of my face because it's my commodity. That's a great freedom. I'm not afraid of being heinous for the sake of a part

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a ra...

[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.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

Laughing and crying are reall...

Laughing and crying are really similar - what happens to your body. It's a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

Doctors and nurses do crazy h...

Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

Doctor Strange is an origin s...

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

Even though Doctor Strange is...

Even though Doctor Strange is an established character, when you're doing an origin story there's a lot of room for manoeuvre.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

Someone will always hate what...

Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

I am very flattered. I have a...

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

For brain surgeons it's parti...

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

There are very specific deman...

There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint more than anything else that you notice. But the ambition of the writing and, hopefully, the delivery of it gets better and better because we want to outdo ourselves to keep ahead of a very expectant and hungry public.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

Only when Stephen Strange has...

Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty monstrous. It's the self-loathing rage of a wounded animal and he doesn't have a coping mechanism at all. It ties in with the discipline and the magic of this world.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

If I'm playing someone who's ...

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

I don't think I could form my...

I don't think I could form my writing into scripts or novels. It's so sporadic. My writing's pretty poor. I often think, "Who's this for?" Sometimes it's impressions of the day or my life, or it's fiction. Sometimes it's about things I want to remember, or I try to write in really awful French.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a...

Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful. He's a dancer and a gymnast so he knows how to plant the moves. He was always saying, "Are you okay?" When you've got that level of mutual consideration you form a family very quickly.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the s...

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

There's another weight of us ...

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

I just increasingly enjoy the...

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

The training gave me the buil...

The training gave me the building blocks to get through it. A production of that scale, in a theater that big, you are going to struggle to keep your voice at first-run perfectness. All that work I did - the pull-ups and pushups - helped keep my body fit. Hamlet, the show, is a cardiovascular workout of about three hours, never mind the mental, soul-crushing element of it.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

I'd shift disciplines, whethe...

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

Benedict Cumberbatch 204 quotes

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