I struggle to learn by rote. I've had meltdowns on set. Which is embarrassing and shameful.

I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

I did a lot of acting at school and university, then I went to drama school. It was quite a normal route.

The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.

There are things that are a given, that you've already established, and obviously, visually, certain iconic things that can't be completely removed, like a certain hat or a certain coat in my case.