[on BBC's Sherlock] It's a rare challenge, both for the audience and an actor, to take part in something with this level of intelligence and wit. You have to really enjoy it. It's a form of mental and physical gymnastics.

When are you ever settled enough to have kids?

You'd have to be pretty hard-nosed not to feel some sympathy for the guy [Doctor Strange].

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

This is an odd profession, and sometimes people get jealous, but I haven't really experienced any of that. Everyone's been really happy for me, which is really, really great.

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.

Being someone who is of our sensual reality, Stephen Strange has a lifestyle, he has a sexuality, he's materialistic.