Actor

I'm not a writer, director or producer.

The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

I love a good suit.

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

I don't like affectation.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

'Sherlock' is beautifully done, if I may say so myself. Even if I wasn't in it, I would like the show.

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

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

I'm geek royalty now.

I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

I look like the man in the moon.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.