Quotes from Benedict Cumberbatch

People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

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

I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Our daily lives are so mundane, we get taken over by what is immediately in front of us and we don't see beyond that.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

I am a PR disaster because I talk too much.

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.

I'm sort of focused on my long-term goal of carving out a career that's for life, rather than being a flash in the pan.

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.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame.

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

I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.

Live a life less ordinary.

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

When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was actually describing on twitter what I was doing. 'I took a shirt off, I went to the window, I put a shirt back on... ' And I've got blinds in my flat!

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