Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.

You must have a twinkle in your eye, a naughtiness - and the audience must realize your mind is working faster than your words.

The most important thing when you're working with greatness is to learn from it, not challenge it.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very difficult to play, or even indicate.

I think the greatest star in American at the moment is Kevin Costner.

I'm not looking and I don't go hunting. I'm the type who's got to be found.

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

Kelsey flopped next to him, propping her elbow on the back of the couch so she was facing him. "Do you have something against happiness?""Yes. Don't tell anyone, but I moonlight as the Grinch.

The carriage could only clop along at about ten miles per hour, which only accentuated Imogene’s excitement. She urged it onward: "Fly, horse, fly!

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Our best thoughts come from others.

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

Purpose without virtue is vanity.

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

It is not pleasant to have a stranger doubt your respectability.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.