If I'm playing someone who's smart, suddenly every character I've played is smart. If I'm playing a bad guy, every character is a bad guy. I suppose it's that thing where people want to see a through-line to understand you. I mean, you know, I have played pretty ordinary people too.

I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

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.

It's one of the things that attracted me to the role [Doctor Strange] is the fact that it's a really widely origin story, I mean this is part of it, but of course there's the whole chapter before where he's the neurosurgeon who has the accident. It's fantastic.

Look at you lot, you're all so vacant, is it nice not being me it must be so relaxing.

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