Benedict Cumberbatch Quotes

I'd love to be an action hero.

A thriller or an action movie would entice me. A sportsperson or a musician's biopic sounds exciting, too.

There's a part of me that would love to be in an action movie where I get to run around and punch people in the face and, whatever, be a murderer, I don't care!

From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.

It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.

I'd love to do an action movie. Something with lots of stunts. Anything fast and dangerous and involving guns.

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

From the days of biplanes and silk scarves, the aviator has been the archetype of masculine glamour. Aviators have personified national ideals, from French elan to Soviet party discipline. They've inspired lust and admiration. They've turned sunglasses and short, utilitarian leather jackets into fashion statements.

I'm looking to do an action film where I can run with my shirt off and a gun in my hand; and do like a 'Taken' role and get up on one knee and kill the bad guy.

In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.

Comedy always came easier for me. But I would have loved to have been an action hero.

With 'The Expendables,' you have such a brilliant mess of the greatest action stars of all time, so you're in for the ride with those people.

With '30 Minutes or Less,' there was a conscious decision on my part to make it a little less stylized. I wanted it to feel like an '80s action movie.

At its root, 'God of War' was always the promise of adventure.

I'm a real-life action hero.

With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.

I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance.

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

I want to do an action movie so badly, it just has to happen at some point in my career. I have to do an action movie. Like, I want to do the Angelina Jolie thing - the guns and the blowing things up.

I grew up watching James Bond and Star Wars and I just love that kind of action. I love trying to see if *I* can actually do it.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.