I would rather fail as an artist than succeed as anything else.

Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.

If you can't set a better example for progress, don't show disapproval against the worse tradition!

Pressure point! Pressure point!

If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

It's not hard to get a girl if I wanted one. But it doesn't mean you want it, and even if you did, you're certainly not going to rub it in anybody's face.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

We made our Moriarty very different to [Conan] Doyle's. He's Irish, and he brings all his charm, his twinkle and his humor to it while he's also terrifying.

Hey, look, I just regenerated a finger. Guess which one.

Just advertising departments with legs and high heels.

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.