Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

I'm not an overnight success. I've been doing it for 12 years. It's been lovely and varied so far.

[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.

Lines are very difficult to learn.

I really discovered [Dr.Strange] through hearing about this film and first meeting Scott [Derrickson] and getting into it and just opening up and saying, "Okay, this is, like all comics, very much of its era," and my first question was, 'How do you make this film? Why do you make this film now?' and the answers were so enticing that I was like, "I'm in."