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Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

Total quotes: 50
“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Violence, Satisfying, Hollow, Satisfaction, humans
“Think of it. A digital computer. Electrical brain.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: digital computer, electrical brain
“Was I God? No. Because God didn't win the war. We did.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: God, War
“Advice about keeping secrets: it's a lot easier if you don't know them in the first place.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Secrets
“Even a broken clock is right twice a day.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: broken clock
“Hardest time to lie to somebody is when they're expecting to be lied to.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: lying
“Joan Clarke: Alan, what's happened?

Alan Turing: [pause] We can't be engaged anymore. Your parents need to take you back. Find you a husband elsewhere.

Joan Clarke: What's wrong with you?

Alan Turing: I have something to tell you. I'm... I'm a homosexual.

Joan Clarke: All right.

Alan Turing: No, no, men, Joan. Not women.

Joan Clarke: So what?

Alan Turing: I just told you...

Joan Clarke: So what? I had my suspicions. I always did. But we're not like other people. We love each other in our own way, and we can have the life together that we want. You won't be the perfect husband? I can promise you I harbored no intention of being the perfect wife. I'll not be fixing your lamb all day, while you come home from the office, will I? I'll work. You'll work. And we'll have each other's company. We'll have each other's minds. Sounds like a better marriage than most. Because I care for you. And you care for me. And we understand one another more than anyone else ever has.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Homosexual, Coming out, Homophobia, True Love
“Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh... thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of... different tastes, different... preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains... built of copper and wire, steel?”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Machines, Thinking, pollen, allergy, ice-skating
“Are you paying attention? Good. If you are not listening carefully, you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. You think that because you're sitting where you are, and I am sitting where I am, that you are in control of what is about to happen. You're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Paying Attention, Listening
“Alan Turing: I like solving problems, Commander. And Enigma is the most difficult problem in the world.

Commander Denniston: Enigma isn't difficult, it's impossible. The Americans, the Russians, the French, the Germans, everyone thinks Enigma is unbreakable.

Alan Turing: Good. Let me try and we'll know for sure, won't we?”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Enigma, Americans, russians, french, Germans
“When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. [pause] They say something else and you're expected to just know what they mean.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: say what you mean
“Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes... hollow.”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Violence, Satisfaction, Hollow
“It's go time!”
— Grinch (voice), The Grinch
Tagged: Grinch, Christmas, Anti-Christmas
“Christmas already? Ugh!”
— Grinch (voice), The Grinch
Tagged: Grinch, Christmas, Anti-Christmas
“I know what to do; I'm going to steal their Christmas!”
— Grinch (voice), The Grinch
Tagged: Grinch, Christmas, Plot, Anti-Christmas
“MAAXXX!
[Max prepares his master's coffee]”
— Grinch (voice), The Grinch
Tagged: Grinch, Christmas, Coffee, Bossy
“[from trailer] Look at those greedy little gift monsters.”
— Grinch (voice), The Grinch
Tagged: Grinch, Christmas, Greed, gifts, Gift Monsters
“[trying to sneak into Whoville; in a strained whisper] This is the loudest snow I've ever heard in my life!”
— Grinch (voice), The Grinch
Tagged: Grinch, Christmas, mean things, style, Whoville
“ Today we will do mean things, and we will do them in style!”
— Grinch (voice), The Grinch
Tagged: mean things, style
“Something like that, yes. ”
— Patrick Melrose, Patrick Melrose, Season 1: Bad News
“I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch, ‘Cumberbitches,’ Rejoice!
Tagged: Passion, Life, Normality
“Stress can ruin everyday of your life, dying can only ruin one.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Lying Detective
Tagged: Death, Stress, Misery
“Taking your own life. Interesting expression - taking it from who? Once it’s over, it’s not you who’ll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Lying Detective
Tagged: Suicide, self-harm, Depression
“Nothing made me. I made me.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Sometimes to solve a case, one must first solve another.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“We all have a past, Watson. Ghosts. They are the shadows that define our every sunny day.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“You must forgive Watson, he has an enthusiasm for stating the obvious, which borders on mania.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Every great cause has martyrs. Every war has suicide missions and make no mistake, this is war. One half of the human race at war with the other. The invisible army hovering at our elbow, tending to our homes, raising our children. Ignored, patronised, disregarded. Not allowed so much as a vote. But an army nonetheless, ready to rise up in the best of causes. To put right an injustice as old as humanity itself. So you see, Watson, Mycroft was right. This is a war we must lose.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Fear is wisdom in the face of danger, it is nothing to be ashamed of.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Good afternoon. I am Sherlock Holmes, this is my friend and colleague, Dr. Watson. You may speak freely in front of him, as he rarely understands a word.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“I’m not an addict, I’m a user. I alleviate boredom and occasionally heighten my thought processes.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“I’ve always known I was a man out of his time.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Superb, suicide as street theatre, murder by corpse. Lestrade, you’re spoiling us.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 4: The Abominable Bride
Tagged: sherlock
“Careful! Some of those skulls are over two hundred thousand years old! Have a bit of respect! …Thank you!”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 1: The Blind Banker
Tagged: sherlock
“Get out. I need to go to my mind palace.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 2: The Hounds of Baskerville
Tagged: sherlock
“You can tell a good Chinese by the bottom third of the door handle.”
— Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Season 1: A Study in Pink
Tagged: sherlock
“Quiet. Calm. Peaceful. Isn't it hateful?”
— Sherlock, Sherlock
Tagged: Boring, Quiet, Peace, calm
“Bitterness is a paralytic. Love is a much more vicious motivator.”
— Sherlock, Sherlock
Tagged: Love, Bitter, motivation
“What is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring.”
— Sherlock, Sherlock
Tagged: Boring, dull, Stupid
“People don’t really go to heaven when they die. They’re taken to a special room and burned.”
— Sherlock, Sherlock
Tagged: Heaven, Death, Burned, Cremation
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