If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story