I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do i….

I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod..

That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If ….

I prefer sneaking in the back door..

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do..

I always wanted to do Restoration comedy. It seems like so much fun..

If not exactly raging against the dying of the light, I was at least a little cross with it..

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts..

I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told me that….

When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. S….

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a heal….

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles..

Europe is so much the home of Horror, with its myths of vampires, werewolves, witchcraft and the undead, yet it's like those myths were exported to H….

Some facts in life are immutable. One is, trust no-one who uses the word 'trope'..

The question I ask myself is: have I really just become a squeamish middle-aged man, or has something happened to the horror genre that shows a growi….

They are called 'Emos' now, and before that they were 'Goths.' They didn't have a name for it when I was one, but I was that black-wearing teenager a….

[Toby Jones] is completely different. It's a completely different character. He's the darkest villain we've had. There was always something charming ….

You can always expect tragedy as well as adventure; that's just how it goes..

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terr….

I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits..

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise..