I'm really not Sherlock Holmes. I look a little bit like him and sound like him.

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.

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

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.

Marketing is what you do when your product is no good.

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. I laugh when I hear that people go on pilgrimage to find God.

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.