Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

Live a life less ordinary.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

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
Benedict Cumberbatch

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

I have actual acting scars.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

Benedict Cumberbatch
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.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

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.

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.