301 Quotes by Benedict Cumberbatch

The world of ‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

I’ve been broody since I was 12, but I can’t just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.

I’ve been reading the books. It’s the origination, it’s the primary source. You should always go back to the books.

There’s still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

To get a horse to hit a mark without a rider, to get it to stand up, to get it to rear, to get it to pick up a bucket and bring it over is amazing. It’s hard work and very rewarding but can be dangerous.

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.

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.

I’m really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.