It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
I want to be able to play trailer-bound fatties in a Judd Apatow comedy.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.
The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
I had a real yearning to make use of the opportunities I had at school. When I heard about the gap year of teaching English at a Tibetan monastery, I knew I had to do something about it really quickly, otherwise it was going to get allocated.
I'm interested in art for all. I don't want it to be only the sons and daughters of Tory MPs who get to see my plays.