I Love Doing Impersonations Of People.

The More Charming Person Is The Person Who Admits The Other Person Is More Charming.

Those Are More Universal Things Than Some Of The Characters I Play, Who Are Slightly Sociopathic. I Keep Reminding People I Can Do Ordinary.

My First Agent Dissuaded Me From Calling Myself 'cumberbatch.' I Had Six Months Of Not Very Productive Time With Her, So I Changed Agents. The New One Said, 'why Aren't You Using Your Family Name? It's A Real Attention-grabber.' I Worried, 'how Much Is It Going To Cost To Put My Name In Lights?' But Then I Decided That's Not My Problem.

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 Think The Characters Are Supposed To Be An Open Book, Blank Canvas.