I'm Only Wanted By Directors

I've Always Liked What Thomas More Said In Utopia, Which Is That In Utopia Every Person Is Allowed Their Own Lifestyle And Religion But No One Is Allowed To Stand On A Soapbox And Tell Others That Theirs Is Right. I Thought That Was Brilliant. Brilliant.

Women Like Bad Boys…being A Good Boy Never Worked For Me.

You Can Compare Holmes And Watson To Great Shakespearean Characters, In A Way. They've Been Played By Hundreds Of Actors Over The Years, And Each One Is A Different Interpretation - The Source Material Can Take That Form Of Interpretation.

I Was An Optimist, A Great Champion Of The Human Spirit. And I Lost That For A Time. I Feel Like I've Regained A Bit Of That In The Last Few Years But There Was A Period Of My Life In Which I Had A Very Low Opinion Of People In General.

I'm Not Tom Cruise. Very Few British Actors Are. If You Look At The Body Of Work I've Done It's Pretty Obvious I'm Not Going To Make A 'mission: Impossible.'