Not that i had a big arse but even that was toned.

For brain surgeons it's particularly difficult to deal with failure. It was fascinating to learn about that whole world.

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

There are very specific demands, though, in television, and you notice the budget constrictions. It's the time constraint and a purse constraint more than anything else that you notice. But the ambition of the writing and, hopefully, the delivery of it gets better and better because we want to outdo ourselves to keep ahead of a very expectant and hungry public.

I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in "I have cumberbatched the UK audience" apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It's crazy and fun and very flattering.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.