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I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.
Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.
You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?
Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.
I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.
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.
I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.
I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.
I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.
When you're playing a tough guy, all the other guys want to be tough right back at you and it amps them up.
Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.
I grew up watching Mickey Mouse and going to Disney World, like, 2,000 times. Mickey Mouse is like my guru.
I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.
I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.
I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.
The luxury of television is that you get more than one shot at who you think the guy is that you're playing.
Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.
I'm excited to see where the Illuminati and whatever else might happen, how that works, and where it ends up.
I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.
I had to kiss it [ playing Hamlet] goodbye because Marvel have to plot things for the next three, four years.
When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.
I had always been heavily influenced by stand-up. I was in a comedy team called Red Johnny And The Round Guy.
When somebody says, "The last thing I want to do is hurt you," it means they've got other things to do first.
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
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 have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.
I'm sad in a way that the character [Doctor Strange ] leaves [neurosurgery] behind. It's an amazing discipline.
Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.
I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.
I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.
I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.
I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film.
I consider myself to be flawed, but I made it work. I'm not perfect. Anybody who thinks they are is whacked-out.
Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!
The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.