Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes - Page 9

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• It will be obvious to anyone who sees it that he [Doctor Strange] earns that cloak. You think he's doing all right and then you realise that there's one massive lesson to learn.

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  Thinking, Doctors, Lessons

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

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  Journey, Awkward, Transition

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

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  Goodbye, Kissing, Years

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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

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  Children, Kids, Only Child

  "Benedict Cumberbatch interview: On the couch with Mr Cumberbatch". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2011.

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• When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be further from the one who emerged from that earlier experience. I regressed massively.

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  Party, Animal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me.

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  Roles, Landing, Surprising

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• Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

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  Class, Looks, Actors

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: I’m Typecast For Being Rich". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 29, 2011.

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• I'm always keen to use my body in my work, so I'm looking forward to the motion capture for Smaug. Both Gollum and King Kong were primates, whereas I'm playing a serpent, so it'll be interesting - I'll have to tie my legs together, possibly, or else they'll be kind of splayed out to the side as a reptile's should be.

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  Kings, Ties, Interesting

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• As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

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  Real, Real Life, Roles

  "Under their skins". Interview with Mark Lawson, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2008.

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• 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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  Sexy, Smart, Believe

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• You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.

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  Boys, Practice, Play

  "‘Sherlock’ Creators and Benedict Cumberbatch on “Myopically Dark” Season 4 and the Series’ Future". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2016.

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• [Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

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  Degrees, Obsessed, Certain

  "‘Sherlock’ Creators and Benedict Cumberbatch on “Myopically Dark” Season 4 and the Series’ Future". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 2, 2016.

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• [Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

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  World, Sentimental, Influence

  "‘Sherlock’ Creators and Benedict Cumberbatch on “Myopically Dark” Season 4 and the Series’ Future". Interview, collider.com. August 2, 2016.

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• This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

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  Jealous, People, Sometimes

  "Benedict Cumberbatch - "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. December, 2013.

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• I was brought up in a world of privilege.

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  World, Privilege

  "Sherlock's Benedict Cumberbatch: 'I'm typecast for being too posh" by Jennifer Still, www.digitalspy.com. December 30, 2011.

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• 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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  Real, Teaching, School

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• New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

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  Beautiful, New York, Crazy

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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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  Drama, Done, Periods

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• It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

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  Father, Married, Wonderful

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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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  War, Grandfather, Tanks

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• When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

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  Kids, Enough

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

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  Land, Oil, Titles

  "Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller". www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.

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• I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

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  Struggle, Embarrassing, Meltdowns

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• 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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  Party, Feet, Costumes

  "Benedict Cumberbatch On Alan Turing's Awkwardness And Sherlock's Sex Appeal". Interview with Dave Davies, listen.sdpb.org. January 22, 2015.

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• Even in cerebral roles that are seemingly intelligent and nothing else, I think it's so important to wrap your characterization in a physical form as well.

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  Intelligent, Thinking, Important

  "Benedict Cumberbatch - "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. December, 2013.

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