I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.
What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.
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
You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.
Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
For after the Battle comes quiet.