Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.

Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

[While voicing cartoons] you have to lose your sanity and inhibitions and any kind of dignity and just throw yourself around a bit.

[Doctor Strange] is difficult, he's arrogant, but he's kind of brilliant and charming and you'd think, "Yeah, I'd want him on my head if I needed brain surgery." He's good enough to warrant his arrogance and he respects other people but not when he thinks he's right and he'll just do what he deems needs to be done when he knows or feels that he's right and the problem from humility's point of view is that he is right, he's really really good at his job.

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.