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

I play enough other mad people, as well and some sane people, to vary the palette of what's scrabbling around in my head and soul to bring to the floor, as a storyteller.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

You let things run in order to have some sanity and be able to do your work and not feel pre-judged.

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

[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.