Live a life less ordinary.
The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
I think with any characterization there's a point where you empathize, no matter how much of a deviance his or her actions may be from your understanding of humanity.
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.
'Frankenstein' was all about the idea that, through electricity and the destruction of night, man creating light and darkness, we took on god-like powers and then abused them like gods, and we are only men. That's a story about man making a man in his own image. The inversion of natural order.
People's hands fascinate me. It's tempting to look at a businessman's left hand and see if there's an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there's a tan line and the skin is pressed down where's he's worked a ring off his finger.
I'm not confident in social situations; just going up to someone in a bar and saying 'Hi' is going to be even more difficult because they won't know the real me. They will just know me as a fictional person I play on the screen.
The world of 'Sherlock Holmes' and the world that we live in now is big enough to take more than one interpretation.