I keep myself amused and others confused

The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.

I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

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

Conan Doyle is amazing in the way he has Watson describe Sherlock’s posture, mood swings, his hand gestures, and so forth in the novels.

I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.