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'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.

If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

I like life to surprise me.

It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

I like the idea of not everything happening between two human beings to be everyone's property.

Martin Freeman