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Benedict Cumberbatch
English
Actor
Born:
Jul 19
,
1976
Actor
Always
Because
Me
People
You
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If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
Benedict Cumberbatch
You
People
Perception
Please
Mad
Go
Expectations
Trying
Then
A woman who knows that she doesn't have to get all decked out to look good is sexy. A woman who can make you feel smart with her conversation skills is also sexy. I believe the sense of humor is important.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Good
You
Conversation
Woman
Sense Of Humor
Smart
Humor
Important
Sense
Believe
Out
Sexy
Feel
Look
Also
She
Make
Knows
Get
Skills
Who
Her
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.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Saying
Me
Will
Difficult
Hi
Someone
More
Know
Because
Real
Up
Person
Going
Confident
Situations
Just
Screen
Fictional
Bar
Social
Even
Play
'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.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Man
Natural
Destruction
Darkness
Light
Men
Own
Took
Frankenstein
About
Only
Inversion
Through
Idea
Abuse
Like
Powers
Making
His
God-Like
Gods
Order
Story
Them
Natural Order
Then
Creating
Electricity
Image
Night
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
Benedict Cumberbatch
War
World
Own
My Own
Rats
Operator
Tank
Were
Commander
Submarine
Grandfathers
Desert
Second
World War
Second World War
I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Struggle
Embarrassing
Shameful
Had
Learn
Which
Rote
Set
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Mediocrity
Bureaucracy
Committee
Century
Much
I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Life
My Life
Abnormal
Well
Normal
Appetite
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.
Benedict Cumberbatch
World
Rare
Mystique
Modern
Modern World
Many
Now
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Education
Trust
Youth
Giving
About
Voice
Take
Road
Wrong
Prince
Ambassador
Wales
Chance
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.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Change
Celebrate
Eyes
People
Year
Nothing
Meet
Colleagues
Case
More
Excuse
Well
Heard
Than
Done
Where
Stories
Certain
Fun
Many
Awards
Careers
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Other
Admit
Charming
More
Person
Who
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.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Funny
You
Maturity
Think
Trek
Kid
Entertaining
Slower
About
Also
Burn
Which
Appeal
Star
Star Trek
Universal
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
Benedict Cumberbatch
You
Yourself
People
Value
Distance
See
Weird
Fame
Need
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.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Art
Tory
See
Only
Daughters
Sons
Get
Want
Interested
Who
Plays
I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Life
Clothes
Late
Developer
Joys
Been
Front
Quite
Realised
Suddenly
Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Kids
Only
Only Child
Because
Always
Child
Maybe
Wanted
I was brought up in a world of privilege.
Benedict Cumberbatch
World
Brought
Up
Privilege
We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
Benedict Cumberbatch
You
Our
Circumstances
Escape
Want
Actor
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Education
Me
Incredibly
Had
Afford
Worked
Hard
Dad
Mum
Mum And Dad
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Drive
Every
Corner
London
Motorbike
Grim
Reaper
Round
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.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Great
You
First
Enjoy
Great Fun
Something
Thrilled
Well
Makes
How
Sherlock
Rewarding
Which
Fun
Series
Film
Received
One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.
Benedict Cumberbatch
Best
About
Being
Actor
Things
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!
Benedict Cumberbatch
Home
Live
Twitter
Took
Back
Once
Some
Window
Someone
He
Put
Blinds
Got
Doing
Accommodation
Opposite
Off
Shirt
Flat
Who
Describing
Actually
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!
Benedict Cumberbatch
You
People
Say
Bit
Bad
Horribly
Share
Feel
Like
Look
Him
Attributes
How
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
His
Just
Which
Ask
Holmes
Really
It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think, 'Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels.'
Benedict Cumberbatch
Day
Wake Up
Try
Looking
Nice
Think
See
Feels
Like
Know
How
Wake
Up
Really
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