I feel like I'm away for much of my own life..

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

It'd be really nice to wake up looking like, I don't know, Jake Gyllenhaal and think "Let's try this on for a day and see how it feels..

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….

There are other people who don't mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good - real, on-the-ground, li….

Writing in French is one of my ambitions. I'd like to be able to dream one day in French. Italian and French are the two languages that I'd like to k….

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,….

One of the first roles I had on stage was with a brilliant director in a brilliant play with a brilliant cast, but I just couldn't find my way into t….

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across..

It's great for the people who supported me early on to see the success I'm enjoying..

If you can't jump on board when the ride's going past that's it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It….

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..

We look at science as the ultimate answer for everything yet we are really messy organisms and when the two collide in the upper echelons of medicine….

My first agent dissuaded me from calling myself 'Cumberbatch.' I had six months of not very productive time with her, so I changed agents. The new on….

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty..

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 z….

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

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 guil….

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

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..

Mads [Mikkelsen] and I have a really epic brawl - a week shoot, lots of rehearsal - and he was just delightful. He's a dancer and a gymnast so he kno….