301 Quotes by Benedict Cumberbatch

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.

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

It's always important to have the blessing.

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

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

I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

'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.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

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.