Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.

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

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from a mutated baddy in a comic book action thriller, to a detective. If anything, I'd like Gary Oldman's career: he's the perfect example of it. I've love to have a really broad sweep of characters - to be able to do something edgy, surprising and unfashionable.

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

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