301 Quotes by Benedict Cumberbatch

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

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

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

When auditioning, I try to imagine that I'm the only person that they [directors] are seeing that day because it can be overwhelming, in the same sense that it could be overwhelming if you try to fulfil everyone's expectations rather than the people closest to you in the creative process, be it your director, or fellow actors and the writers. So, that's kind of it - I try to trick myself into believing that no one has ever gone there before.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.