I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
From Benedict Cumberbatch
We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
If people ask, 'Are you Sherlock Holmes?', it's horribly naff, but I say, 'I'm not, I just look a bit like him' - which is how I feel. There are bad attributes of his that I really don't share!
I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.
Lines are very difficult to learn.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
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.
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