There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.
Benedict CumberbatchThe world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
Benedict CumberbatchI had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
Benedict CumberbatchI'm aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, "When are we doing next film?" I'm excited to see.
Benedict CumberbatchI had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.
Benedict Cumberbatch