Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal.

I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.

The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it.

Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.