Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes - Page 11

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• To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It's hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

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  Horse, Hard Work, Buckets

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• I know that might sound perverse because I played Julian Assange but, honestly, I don't think it would be fair for me to judge the man. I realize that makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I was portraying him a certain way, but we were always open to the fact that this was an interpretation, not any kind of exact evidence of who the man was.

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  Hypocrite, Men, Thinking

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I actually do mind having a photo taken because it's one o'clock in the morning and I'm off my face.

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  Morning, Taken, Mind

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• I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.

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  Character, Men, People

  'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.

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  Thinking, Shoes, People

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I was never geeky about anything.

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  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

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  Privacy, Hard, Hard Things

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• [Doctor Strange] is a really rich character. It's an easy thing to have a good old meal every day. It's great. Yeah, I'm excited.

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  Character, Doctors, Meals

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• I have actual acting scars.

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  Acting, Scar

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

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  Opportunity, Actors, Able

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". Interview With David Greene, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

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  Nice, Looks, Being Me

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• Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

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  School, Males, Adolescence

  "Benedict Cumberbatch on playing Sherlock Holmes". Interview with Amanda Mitchison, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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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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  Nice, Thinking, Trying

  "Nice shirt, Sherlock — Q&A with Benedict Cumberbatch". Esquire Interview, www.esquire.co.uk. July 23, 2010.

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• I'm not one for doing the children's party version: "Hi, I'm a character in a movie and now I'm in reality!" I was doing the last shot of the film before reshoots outside their shop. I was starting my run into the frame and I thought, "You are literally ending where this began. The loop of serendipity's too much to not go in and acknowledge it." I just wanted to see the look on their faces.

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  Running, Children, Party

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

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  Drama, School, Acting

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• There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

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  World, Slavery, Height

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

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• I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U.K., 'cause it's kind of fun.

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  Fun, Sunday, Ideas

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.

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  Growing Up, Reality, Careers

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I have memories of clouds whisking by while sitting in the pushchair on the roof of my parents' flat. I loved it! I just loved staring at the clouds and dreaming away.

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  Dream, Memories, Clouds

  "The Cumberbatch Kid Comes of Age and is All the Rage". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.

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  Dark, Reflection, People

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• [While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

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  Cartoon, Dignity, Kind

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

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  Sound, Looks, Littles

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

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  Character, Self, Who I Am

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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• I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

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  Play, People, Mad

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 20, 2014.

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• Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

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  Long, Trying, Relax

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