I've gone up two suit sizes. The character I'm playing, he's strong, I can say that much. I've changed my physique a bit, so that requires eating like a foie gras goose, well beyond your appetite. Providing I don't feel too ill, I then work out two hours a day with a phenomenal trainer. It's the L.A. way.
Benedict CumberbatchI was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.
Benedict CumberbatchLooking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.
Benedict CumberbatchI struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.
Benedict CumberbatchThe generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.
Benedict Cumberbatch