Sherlock Holmes can be wise and funny. He wasn't, at the beginning. But later on, he's got a bantering relationship with loads of people. He's got a wisdom that he didn't have in the early stage. But he stays on the mountain top, and he will die up there. He's not going to change that.

Between the marriages, I shagged my way round television studios like a mechanical digger.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

I never go online. The Internet stuff is bonkers. You must not look at it.

What is immutable about Sherlock Holmes? He favors reason over emotion, but actually underneath that, there is a lot of emotion going on. You can't suddenly make him ordinary because he would hate that. He's not suddenly going to be somebody else.

I like that Helen Mirren has been saying the next doctor should be a woman. I would like to go on record and say that the Queen should be played by a man!

Have you met the French? My...GOD they know how to party!