Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.

Anyone who works in the NHS has superpowers. It's a miracle, it is magic.

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.

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.