I think I've had very knee-jerk emotional reactions to things, and sometimes I've said things without thinking. Being overly emotional clouded my judgment.

I've always wanted to play a spy, because it is the ultimate acting exercise. You are never what you seem.

Mum did a lot of commercial theatre and farces in the 1980s and '90s to make sure the school bills were paid.

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

Live a life less ordinary.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.