Benedict Cumberbatch World Quotations

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

I was brought up in a world of privilege.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.

There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.