Benedict Cumberbatch Life Quotes & Sayings

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

You can't imagine fame. You can only ever see it from an outsider and comment on it with the rueful wisdom of a non participant. When it happens to you, it doesn't matter what age or how, it is a very steep learning curve. The imprtanot thing to realize in all of it is that life is short, to protect the ones you love, and not expose yourself to too much abuse or narcissistic reflection gazing and move on. If fame affords me the type of ability to do the kind of work I'm being offered, who am I to complain about the downsides. It's all relative. And this are obviously very high class problems. The way privacy becomes an every shrinking island is inevitable but also manageable and it doesn't necessary have to get that way ... — Benedict Cumberbatch

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. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite the opposite in real life. In fact I'm a f**king fantastic lover. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal. — Benedict Cumberbatch

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

Everything I didn't know I was looking for ... it's there whenever I'm with you. I don't know what it is that you think I deserve, but I don't want anything other than what's right here, right now. — Courtney Giardina

What a tragic waste o engagement (selfies). Enjoy the moment. Do something more worthwhile with your time, anything. Stare out the window and think about life. — Benedict Cumberbatch

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. — Milton Friedman

Live Life Less Ordinary — Benedict Cumberbatch

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life. — Benedict Cumberbatch

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. — Virginia Woolf

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things. — George F. Will

Experience, when no longer a measure of security, becomes what it is now:
freely exchangeable currency. — Gyan Nagpal

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

Live a life less ordinary. — Benedict Cumberbatch

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration. — Ted Dekker

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. — Elvis Costello

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home. — Michael Phelps

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. — Benedict Cumberbatch

For the bird that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. — Louis De Bernieres

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

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

Many argue; not many converse. — Louisa May Alcott

There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids in school that are female and I wonder, 'Where did they all go?' People have brought it up, asking me, 'What did you do?' I don't really know. I puttered along, did my thing and gender has really never been an issue. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson