I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

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.

Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God.

You can endure all things by grace.

Bringing a child into the world is the greatest act of hope there is.

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

But, reader, there is no comfort in the word "farewell," even if you say it in French. "Farewell" is a word that,in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.