Top 25 Charlie Cox Quotes

I love to do cardio. I like to run and sweat a lot, and I think that’s quite helpful.

I think that Matt Murdock, the way he kind of holds himself, he’s quite sensible at times, and he’s quite serious. I think he would admire Captain America – not that he wouldn’t admire Iron Man, but I think he probably be a little put off by his grandiosity.

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

I’d love to see Peter Parker and Daredevil hang out. There’s a wonderful issue of the comics where Matt Murdock has to defend Daredevil, because the public don’t know, and so he has Peter Parker put on his Daredevil outfit so that he can sit in the docks. You know, great storyline.

My reaction when I hear the word ‘celebrity’ is, ‘Who, me?’ It doesn’t feel like I’m famous.

I don’t feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.

I’ve gone through long periods of time when there’s no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there’s never a consideration about whether you do or don’t do something.

It was weird. Like, people came up to me and knew me as Daredevil before any footage had come out. I remember a guy on the subway being like, ‘You’re Charlie Cox. You’re Daredevil.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah…?’ I was barely Daredevil. I hadn’t even signed the contract, you know?

I’ve struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I’m not riddled with guilt.

If you want to play a complex, turmoiled character, then give him a dose of Catholicism.

I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

You can have the most emotional moment as an actor, ever, and many people would be like, ‘Okay, cool. What’s next?’ You land one punch in a fight scene, and everyone is like, ‘Yeah!’

I didn’t grow up on comics, and I read very few.

Fame terrifies me. I can say that with honesty. You’re terrified that, when people know the real you, they won’t like you.

I think the danger is to try and please everyone.

I’d love to play Spiderman, but I’m definitely too old for that role now.

What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren’t real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.

Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very much about it, but I’m paid to make believe. When you’re a kid, you go to your friend’s house, and it’s, ‘Let’s pretend we’re both cowboys!’ Without belittling it, that’s basically what I do – I tell stories.

I love those moments in any movie or film where there’s a reference to a bigger picture, especially in Marvel where everything is connected.

One of the great things about playing a fallible superhero, one who doesn’t necessarily have superpowers, is that the stakes are raised by the prospect of them perishing.

There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.

‘The Theory Of Everything’ was a charming story, but I never dreamed it would turn out the way it did, winning all sorts of awards, and I don’t think anybody working on it did.

I left Britain in the mid-1990s when TV was going down the cundy – another good Dundee word – because I wanted a film career. But as I get older, I find myself being drawn back to my roots, and I’m loving it.

There’s something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don’t get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I’d most like to live, I would always choose London.

Mark Rylance is one of my heroes. I saw ‘Jerusalem’ four or five times, twice in New York, twice in London.