Having your adolescence at an all-male boarding school is just crap.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

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.

The biggest lesson Stephen Strange learns in this film is it's not all about him.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

There are other people who don't mind shouting from the pulpit and being judged for it, and they do a hell of a lot of good - real, on-the-ground, life-changing good. So I think it can sometimes be a balancing act.

Lines are very difficult to learn.