I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.

One of the best things about being an actor is that it's a meritocracy.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

I was always performing, doing silly voices. The teachers realized I could go one of two ways: be creative or destructive.

[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.

I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?