Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

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.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

If lying was an asset, the world would have been full of rich people

We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else.

He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

I would walk until I had walked all the life out of me, and when I fell, I would die that much closer to home.

Feast today makes fast tomorrow

Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them.