If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

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.

Sherlock being the most prevalent, and they've been really good fun.

I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.

Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other.

We have a lot more unlikely heroes now. It’s not just the guy with guns—it’s the guy with brains.