Top 120 Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Live a life less ordinary.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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2. “I’m a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

3. “The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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4. “Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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5. “I keep myself amused and others confused.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

6. “Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I’m also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

7. “Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can’t stop, and you’ve got so many stories to look forward to.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

8. “You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It’s made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

9. “Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

10. “I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

14. “You’re wrong, you know. You do count. You’ve always counted and I’ve always trusted you. But you were right. I’m not okay.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

15. “My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

16. “I’m not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

17. “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

18. “I’ll always do ‘Sherlock’ – it’s something I’m not going to give up on.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

19. “I try to work hard. I’m really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it’s a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

20. “I drag a lot of stuff round with me that I don’t need.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

21. “I remember very clearly someone saying, ‘Don’t shake hands with the cactus,’ and I thought, ‘Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?’ Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

22. “If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

23. “Mystique is rare now, isn’t it? There aren’t that many enigmas in this modern world.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

24. “New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I’ve always had dear friends here – family, actually, I would say.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

25. “Look at you lot, you’re all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

26. “I’m sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that’s for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

27. “We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns – it’s the guy with brains.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

28. “I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

29. “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

30. “Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

31. “I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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32. “I actually do mind having a photo taken because it’s one o’clock in the morning and I’m off my face.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

33. “I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

34. “I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

35. “Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don’t know anyone on Earth who doesn’t, but I do find it funny. I look in a mirror and I see all the faults I’ve lived with for 35 years and yet people go kind of nuts for certain things about me. It’s not me being humble. I just think it’s weird.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

36. “I ate healthily, but there was no snacking, no drinking, no bread, no sugar, no smoking. Afterwards I had a pork belly roast.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

37. “I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

38. “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.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

39. “Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I’ve done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess it’s realizing I am part of the world around me.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

41. “It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

42. “People always want to knock you when you’re up.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

43. “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

44. “I have actual acting scars.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

45. “Maybe it’s because I was an only child, but I’ve always wanted kids.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

46. “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

47. “Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

48. “I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

49. “Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you’re Royalty.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

50. “Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don’t see beyond that.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch