I keep myself amused and others confused.

Kevin Feige said to me: "I don't think we've ever put an actor through quite as much as this, physically and mentally." I'll wear that as a badge of ….

Landing the role of Stephen Hawking was the most positively surprising thing that has happened to me..

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people..

The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and th….

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is an ambition of mine - anything from….

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world..

I've never done a lead role in a film this big [like Doctor Strange], in a franchise this big. One of the reasons was, I wanted to know what the toy ….

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels..

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 ha….

When I was young I became kind of a party animal. I had a massive crash. My health suffered. I was just overdoing it. That person could not be furthe….

I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?.

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on..

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world..

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate..

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays..

I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up..

It still makes me giggle that I'm paid to act..

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains..

Thus, a vision of the whole gradually grew for me that was nourished by the various experiences and realizations I had encountered along my theologic….

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey.