Top 120 Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “When you see a good horseman, you’re unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It’s like telepathy.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

102. “Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you’re picking up skill sets and experiences. It’s the university of life.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

103. “Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

104. “I was the boy that turned a girlfriend into the most celebrated lesbian on television. I got so much stick for that.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

105. “I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I’m a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that’s equally an odd experience.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

106. “I’ve realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

107. “I’m not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar 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.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

108. “Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

109. “I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than their own – they, to me, are the enemy. And those people are born out of desperate extremes.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

111. “What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it’s actually something that will appeal to a family, that’s the trick.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

112. “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.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

113. “All the backstories are there but not talked about.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

114. “I love doing impersonations of people.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

115. “People are being beheaded in countries right now because of their beliefs or sexual orientation. It’s terrifying. It’s medieval. I’d take up arms against someone who was telling me I had to believe in what they believed or they’d kill me.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

116. “The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

117. “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.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

118. “I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what’s scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

119. “I’m not very geeky. I’m quite homespun. I would say I’m more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

120. “There’s so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

121. “I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

122. “I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

— Benedict Cumberbatch

124. “The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

125. “There’s a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It’s not something to be completely daunted by.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

126. “When you start getting jobs, and see your mates from drama school, you don’t really want to talk about it, because you have this innate sense of guilt that it’s not fair that others aren’t doing exactly what you’re doing. I do have that.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

127. “It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

128. “I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

129. “As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

130. “I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch

131. “Talking about class terrifies me. There is no way of winning.”

— Benedict Cumberbatch