Latest Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes from Interviews

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• Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to know.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Dream, Writing, Ambition

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Laughing, Musician, Cry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Emotional, People, Response

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think. When I walk through that door, it's about home. If I didn't do that, I'd become consumed by one thing only and damage the people who love me. And it would damage the work.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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

  Workout, Block, Struggle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I am shortsighted. I need glasses for watching movies or concerts. It's not a hipster affectation; I do have poor eyesight. This is how ridiculous my life is: I've had the test for contact lenses, but I haven't found a half-day where I can go to the optician.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Hipster, Ridiculous, Poor

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you can't fail, you can never get better.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Get Better, Failing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• One of the first roles I had on stage was with a brilliant director in a brilliant play with a brilliant cast, but I just couldn't find my way into the heart of the character. I found myself straining a lot. When it started. I felt lost. That was the Eugène Ionesco play Rhinoceros. I don't think I was prepared for that. I don't think I had the full tool kit to do it justice. It's a very difficult play, it's an extraordinarily difficult part, and I never felt I really got it right. Far from it. To a degree, Hamlet was the same.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Heart, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• There are other people who don't mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good - real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying something, especially if it has to do with the work.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I still find to give an interview to be difficult, as any person who deals with the press will tell you. That's why it's nice, with this one, to talk to a friend. But sometimes with a coffee and a friendly smile, I suddenly start talking without thinking about how it's going to be read.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Nice, Coffee, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Emotional, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I would love to just have the work do the talking. We're in positions where people ask us questions; they want to know about more than just the work. And it can go into areas where I've completely shot my mouth off, whether it's too much about my private life or being too opinionated about things in the world. I think the better thing to do - I've learned this from people far wiser than me - is to do very good, quiet work behind closed doors.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think I'm a very good driver. Apparently, the cause of road rage - as with most anger - is some kind of superiority complex, which, god knows, cars foster.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, Car, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Sometimes during a conversation with a journalist - where you are answering things you never normally talk about, not even with some of your closest friends - you end up being quite confessional, and you don't think about the amplification of that. No matter how fancy these journalists are, they have editors or political leanings behind their publications, which means that, basically, they're going to shape what you've said into an article they've already written. So you have to be really careful with your words.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mean, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Even though my parents experiences were different from mine. I wasn't a child actor brat; I didn't travel with them in the circuit. But I got a look into their world, so I did know what I was getting into, to an extent. And they are a constant source of grounding.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Children, Parent, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Thinking, People, Worry

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Motivation, Parent, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I really cannot get over the generosity of our Tibetian teacher. He said, "Don't punish yourself. You're going to be a student at a university in the north of England. You need to have your experiences and have your fun, and not judge yourself. Don't live in guilt and regret."

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Teacher, Fun, Regret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Party, Animal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I love the idea of playing something stupid or romantic. I'm not the smartest man in the room. I listen, and I learn, and I observe, but I'm always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That's great fun, even though it's as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Stupid, Character

  Source: aalbc.com

• Actor 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.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Jealous, People, Sometimes

  Source: aalbc.com

• I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Worry, Tea, Trying

  Source: www.theguardian.com