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When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy. (Benedict Cumberbatch)
I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up. View quote
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I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.' View quote
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There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by. View quote
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If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share! View quote
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I have actual acting scars. View quote
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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. View quote
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Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap. View quote
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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. View quote
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'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. View quote
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I would say in compound sense of what little I know is it's definitely darker in tone, and in terms of advice for taking kids of a certain age, it's going to be prohibitive for certain people of a certain age because it is scary. (Benedict Cumberbatch)
I was very, very into techno for a long time. That was my bag at uni. I went clubbing a lot and all sorts of nonsense ensued. Havok on a Friday was my favourite night because I just loved dancing. View quote
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I don't know if watching your own work is a good or bad thing. I don't know how much I learn from it. Each individual circumstance holds its own world of singularities and peculiarities. But among that, you can go: "Oh yeah, I remember that was what I tried to do.”. View quote
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I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received. View quote
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One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy. View quote
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When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think. View quote
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I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat! View quote
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wasn't born into land or titles, or new money, or an oil rig. View quote
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The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying. (Benedict Cumberbatch)
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition. View quote
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Metaphorically speaking, it's easy to bump into one another on the journey from A to B and not even notice. People should take time to notice, enjoy and help each other. View quote
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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. View quote
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The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation. View quote
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Photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0
Occupation: English Actor
Born: July 19, 1976
Quotes count: 94
Wikipedia: Benedict Cumberbatch

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