I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.

Every so often you get to play wonderful characters maybe at the wrong time in your life. Sometimes, you get to play terrible characters at a really great time in your life. Sometimes, the right character comes along at the right time.

I think it's a bigger risk following a part that plays up your looks than it is to try and carve out a career as an actor.

You can compare Holmes and Watson to great Shakespearean characters, in a way. They've been played by hundreds of actors over the years, and each one is a different interpretation - the source material can take that form of interpretation.

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Rafferty [Law] plays three or four instruments. He is very gifted. Whereas I pick instruments up and kind of stare at them and go, "I can't ever possibly play this." And I don't!