#shitpeoplesayaboutbenedict

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The actor, who plays a dashing, hyperactive Sherlock Holmes in the recent BBC adaptation “Sherlock,” is almost unrecognizable in this role. His Tietjens is both pompous and self-aware, attractive and ungainly, though never homely enough to justify Valentine’s exclamation, “You’re not so dreadfully ugly, really.”

Alessandra Stanley, on Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Christopher Tietjens in Parade's End, The New York Times, February 2013 (x)

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Warning: Benedict Cumberbatch talks quickly. Very quickly indeed… Sentences pile on top of each other so fast that he’s barely covered one topic before he’s diverted down another path and is chatting about something else entirely.

Boyd Hilton, Heat Magazine, December 2011 (x)

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His features – the huge almond eyes, the sweeping Cupid's bow, the acute tapering from cheekbones to chin – can, in repose, hint at something extra-terrestrial; lit with animation, however, they're charmingly boyish.

Emma John, on Benedict Cumberbatch, The Observer, September 2011 (x)

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Benedict Cumberbatch is talking Edwardian manners, the brutishness of croquet and a million other things that segue rapidly into each other while my brain struggles feebly to keep up. He is making me a cup of Earl Grey, and a single question – shall we share a teabag? – has triggered this rush of inspiration, from tea ceremonies to post-colonial theory. It's fair to say that Cumberbatch is both a thinker and a talker.

Emma John, The Observer, September 2011 (x)

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Benedict Cumberbatch might conceivably be the politest person I have ever met. When someone offers him a cappuccino, he can barely speak for gratitude... He does seem to have a genuine, un-actorly concern for other people.

Elizabeth Day, The Observer, November 2010 (x)

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The world is beaming so warmly on the tall, rangy 34-year-old with his lovely cologne and Old Harrovian manners, that you could toast your fingers in the glow. While the rest of us lumber on, the actor is ice-skating in pirouettes, doing justice to his big moment by overtaxing his diary, accommodating everyone, surviving on little sleep.

Lesley White, on Benedict Cumberbatch, The Sunday Times, August 2010 (x)

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…an actor of rare emotional intelligence on stage, and cerebral and charming in the flesh…

Metro, on Benedict Cumberbatch, February 2011 (x)

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Dragons are inherently sexy.

Stephen Colbert, on Benedict Cumberbatch's Smaug in The Hobbit, The Colbert Report, December 2012 (x)