Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don't need.”

“My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”

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

“Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.”

“I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.”

“I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.”

“'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.”

“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.”

“We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.”

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