"Fame? It will pass. — I don't want to complain or explain. It's a thing that it will pass. It's part of a predictable pattern."
Source: hellyeahbenedict
Benedict Cumberbatch it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn’t it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn’t keen on me keeping it.
Source: hellyeahbenedict
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
Source: hellyeahbenedict
I’m not confident in social situations, just going up to someone in a bar is 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.
Source: hellyeahbenedict
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don’t see yourself. So when I’m told of my sex-symbol status and all that nonsense I find it laughable, silly. I mean, look. I’m 36 and I’ve been looking at this same old mush all my life.
Source: hellyeahbenedict
And I’m only thinking of, now, not to do this. Because... I’m just hot.
Source: hellyeahbenedict
I’ll always do Sherlock — it’s something I’m not going to give up on. I love it too much. It’s hard work, but it’s so rewarding and such a lovely bunch of people who do it. We love our fans and we love what it’s created. It’s an incredible thing to be part of; it doesn’t happen that often. Don’t worry; it’s not going to disappear.
Source: hellyeahbenedict
It makes me smile, not that I didn’t smile before. But it makes me giggle a bit, like an idiot… It’s a weird thing, isn’t it? Because people know me better than I know them now. That has changed things. That makes for a very strange first encounter sort of dynamic, if you know what I mean. I can’t be churlish about it. It’s incredibly flattering. I want to do something useful with it, rather than just sort of feel smug about it. It’s a lovely position to be in, and it’s off the back of work that’s been really, really celebrated.
Source: hellyeahbenedict
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I’m here to tell you I’m quite the opposite in real life. I’m a fucking fantastic lover. - Benedict Cumberbatch.
Source: hellyeahbenedict
It's nutso. It has been crazy for the last two and a half years.. I've loved every minute of it. It has been really diverse, which is what I always wanted it to be, to be challenging. I'm so lucky. I work hard, I admit that, but I am very, very, very lucky. I do have to pinch myself every now and then. - Benedict Cumberbatch.
Source: hellyeahbenedict