Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.

Maybe it's just getting older, but I don't want to miss things.

I want to be better at staying connected.

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

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

Marvel always make it fresh so you can give it your personal twist.

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

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

I've never been front and centre as an iconic American character [like in Doctor Strange]. Day to day, you know you're painting on a very big canvas.

You'd have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].

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

I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.

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.

Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

I've done a bit of live action before but the fight sequences, the wire work and the physical regime were taken to another level [ in Doctor Strange].

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Doctors and nurses do crazy hours and keep an ideal afloat through the love and care that they have for their craft and their patients and the institution of the NHS. We should be very proud of it.

The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it's not all about him.

Scott Derrickson breathes humour into a character with a very strong identity in the '60s and '70s, that psychedelia era of Eastern mysticism meeting the West.

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

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

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.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

I feel like I'm away for much of my own life.

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.

[Scott Derrickson] is terrific, really sharp on the details, and he's not afraid to go to dark places.

Why this character [Doctor Strange] is being introduced, to open up the next chapter. A

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally." I'll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

I don't wear a mask, I don't have a suit. It's not some CG double or a stunt double. The suffering the character [Doctor Strange ] goes through is immense!

[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.

There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.

I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.

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

If you can't jump on board when the ride's going past that's it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

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

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

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

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.

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