[Doctor Strange] gets scraped off the floor and then thrown right down to hell again and then slowly pulls himself back up.

Those are more universal things than some of the characters I play, who are slightly sociopathic. I keep reminding people I can do ordinary.

I wanted to take the audience on a journey where that transition was funny and awkward. It's the same cynicism that [Strange] has.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

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

[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.