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.

It's always important to have the blessing.

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

If you can't fail, you can never get better.

[Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

I want to do it all. I want to climb mountains, go through jungles, fight wars in space, get the girl, shoot the bad-guy full of lead, have all the zippy one liners, bulge muscles out of a singlet, drip sweat and blood on screen, all of that.