A biography for Benedict Cumberbatchhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.”
“I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!”
“When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.”
“I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.”
“I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.”
“The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.”
“I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.”
“Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.”
“Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.”
“I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.”
“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.'”
“It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.”
“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.”
“'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.”
“Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.”
“Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.”
“Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.”
“I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.”
“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!”