Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally." I'll wear that as a badge of honour. It was endless.

You'd have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].

Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.

I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.

Sherlock [Holmes] is on the side of the angels, but don't think he's one of them. He uses similar means, but it seems to be for a better purpose, one would hope.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.