As soon as you get two actors in a room and they're locking eyes, they're doing a scene.

I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'God, you don't get people coming up to you, going, 'Hey!' - because they're scared of you.'

[On his Emmy win] I thought ‘ah, very, very nice’ and then I went to sleep.

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.