Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

Sometimes during a conversation with a journalist - where you are answering things you never normally talk about, not even with some of your closest friends - you end up being quite confessional, and you don't think about the amplification of that. No matter how fancy these journalists are, they have editors or political leanings behind their publications, which means that, basically, they're going to shape what you've said into an article they've already written. So you have to be really careful with your words.

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

[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.

An inflated sense of self-importance? Absolutely, but I think it comes from Doctor Strange need to control things and that's what happens to all surgeons, I think. There's a huge degree of uncertainty and bafflement.

I think playing any iconic role when you're stepping into big shoes, into the shadow of people who have come before you and you can't process that.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.