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

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

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

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

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.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

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.