Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

[Sherlock Holmes] has to understand the world. That's very much John's [Watson] influence on him. But like a lot of the friendships and relationships in that world, it's born out of necessity. It makes him better. There's a pragmatism to it. It's not whimsical or sentimental. It's born out of necessity.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty monstrous. It's the self-loathing rage of a wounded animal and he doesn't have a coping mechanism at all. It ties in with the discipline and the magic of this world.