I finally got to sit and watch the Stephen Hawking episodes that he narrated. The subject is very intense and when they fade from Stephen's voice to Benedict's, it's just bone-chilling. There are lots of words that I will never hear the same way again: the beauty of the cosmos, all things come together through gravity, and my personal favorite we are all made of the smoke of the Big Bang. Bad enough the subject matter blew my mind, but that voice, too?

I often learn new words from his interviews. Most recently was him describing JJ Abrams as a "polymath" which I had to look up. Expand your vocabulary with BC!

A nice example from the Naked Scientists interview. Please note that it's a direct transcript from what he said: 
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"The very variety of disciplines and the extraordinarily different disciplines that science encompasses, answer questions as varied and broad as How can we use a new drug to patterns in the brain that may determine whether or not Alzheimer’s is going to take hold or you know psychotropic drugs that need to be researched and marketed and have an immediate application to questions of how we came into existence and what existence is and the very nature of our being"

SusiGo wrote:

A nice example from the Naked Scientists interview. Please note that it's a direct transcript from what he said: 
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"The very variety of disciplines and the extraordinarily different disciplines that science encompasses, answer questions as varied and broad as How can we use a new drug to patterns in the brain that may determine whether or not Alzheimer’s is going to take hold or you know psychotropic drugs that need to be researched and marketed and have an immediate application to questions of how we came into existence and what existence is and the very nature of our being"

Holy...! Did he even breathe in between?
 

Mary Me wrote:

SusiGo wrote:

A nice example from the Naked Scientists interview. Please note that it's a direct transcript from what he said: 
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"The very variety of disciplines and the extraordinarily different disciplines that science encompasses, answer questions as varied and broad as How can we use a new drug to patterns in the brain that may determine whether or not Alzheimer’s is going to take hold or you know psychotropic drugs that need to be researched and marketed and have an immediate application to questions of how we came into existence and what existence is and the very nature of our being"

Holy...! Did he even breathe in between?
 

This is just one sentence from one answer. It was much longer. 

He can be obstreperous too. 

=13pxHowever, Sherlock also has moments when he is a "low-spectrum autistic" And he is not " someone who’s likely to be changed by corrective analysis"

Fortunately, Benedict's experience with fans has been  "incredibly benign"  so far.

I think I will buy a block notes and begin to write down all these nice expressions. After a month my English should experience an exponentional growth.

Last edited by miriel68 (May 16, 2013 3:49 pm)

Exponential - gosh a great word to use though. 

What a great article....  thanks!   Love it when the interviewer knows at least enough of who/what they're talking about to get to neat thoughts about Ben/his roles, instead of rehashing the same stuff or wasting space asking for detailed movie secrets he can't give away (or bad jokes/cluelessness, like Letterman....  ;P)