If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.