[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.

There's another weight of us being in the public eye, which is this presumption that, because your work and your promotion work is very public, your private life should be, too.

[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

I'm quite surprised by how many people grew up with this character [Doctor Strange ].

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.