Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about..

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it..

I look like the man in the moon..

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else..

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration..

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway..

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about..

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see mysel….

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised..

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as ….

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three ….

Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. ….

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my lov….

Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will eith….

There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those th….

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to..

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God..

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style..

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog..

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between..

Sherlock and Watson are a love story.