Benedict Cumberbatch Quotations | Page 3

What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

I just want to bring people in a little bit to the idea of sitting down on a Sunday three consecutive weeks and having that water cooler moment that really was a sort of a national sensation in the U.K., 'cause it's kind of fun.

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

I'm very excited about all the offers and interest and support pouring in through crowd-funding, and about having a lovely gap coming up when I'll finally be able to sit down with books and scripts and talk to my partners about how we take the company [SunnyMarch] forward.

It's always important to have the blessing.

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

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

I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?