I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London..

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful o….

I still find to give an interview to be difficult, as any person who deals with the press will tell you. That's why it's nice, with this one, to talk….

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning..

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a ….

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should..

Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For instance,….

[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him..

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 think the characters are supposed to be an open book, blank canvas..

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

I've gone up two suit sizes. The character I'm playing, he's strong, I can say that much. I've changed my physique a bit, so that requires eating lik….

I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you en….

It's always important to have the blessing..

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals..

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think..

I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'B….

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set..

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive..

Live a life less ordinary..

Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun..