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

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

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.

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

There's no retirement for an artist, its your way of living so theres no end to it.

That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning.

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.

Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her, In vain would fond winds fan her back to life, Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

God's image is the married couple, a man and women, together. Not just the man. Not just the woman. No, both of them. That's God's image.

[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

in darkness and in hedges I sang my sour tone and all my love was howling conspicuously alone.