Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

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

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Believe in God is the beauty of being.

Be gentle, kind and loving to yourself.

I am a hero! Are you?" - Chris

I plan for all obstacles, I prepare with care, I worry endlesslyfor the road aheadIn all this, I forgetto enjoy small momentsof my present journey

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.

The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday.

If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated