The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

Cumberbatch - it sounds like a fart in a bath, doesn't it? What a fluffy old name. I can never say it on a Monday morning. When I became an actor, Mum wasn't keen on me keeping it.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

Men ... always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Thinking carries a moral imperative. The searcher for truth must be ready to obey truth without reservation or it will elude him.

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Think about it. People aren't out to get you, they're just stupid.

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.