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I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.

I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.

I suppose the real cult things now are independent films made for a million pounds.

I've always been attracted to darkness.

I think the only directing I'd be any good at is theatre directing. It's the only thing I can see myself doing.

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

People misunderstand me.

I don't like affectation.

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

I love eating. I mean, I really, really love eating.

I love a good suit.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I have quite catholic taste in music.

I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.

Are there many Tims in America? I don't know if I can think of many American Tims.

My main priority in any job is when is the soonest I can get back to the three people I love most in the world.

I'm always interested with other actors in what their process is, and are they still interested in acting, as opposed to being a star.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.

Not all art is great; most of it's rubbish.

I'm geek royalty now.

I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.

I read 'Animal Farm' when I was 11, and it remained my favorite book, really.

There are always challenges to green screen.

I think I'm less gloomy than I used to be - I've got a very supportive other half.

The Marx Brothers isn't subtle, and that's hilarious.

Thank you, people of Emmyland. To be nominated in such company is an honour, especially for two shows that I'm immensely proud of. I'm delighted.

I don't want to be poor, of course. But I try not to make that the guiding force behind whether I choose to do something or not.

You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.

I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.

Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

I could say, 'I want to play a French-African humpback,' but I probably won't get that role.

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage.

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses.

My idea of a good night out is staying in.

I'm quite a disciplinarian: I can be a shouter. But I can be a very demonstrative kisser and hugger.

Your slippers last a lot longer in your bedroom. On a film set, they do get very scuffed up.

I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.

I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.

I wasn't like a Fifties dad.

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

I think the hardest part about anything you do for 18 months is just keeping yourself together for 18 months.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

I like talky scenes.

I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.

I've always got my eye on my deathbed.

I don't like 'cool telly.'

It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

Most people aren't these grandstanding heroes.

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

I can live without endless television programmes and films just centered around computers. I can sort of live without that.

As an actor, you know there are things you get asked to do that you do quite well, with less effort.

Acting is the only thing I'm even vaguely good at and acting is something that I think I do know about.

I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.

I know very few people who have literally improvised a film from start to finish.

I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.

Actors are people who are doing a job they want to do, which isn't the case for many of the people who watch what we do.

We can all look on the Internet and go, 'He hates me! Oh, but she loves me. Oh, but he hates me,' you know. And that way, madness lies.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

I think the world needs to see more of my face.

I like being called 'Mr. Freeman' occasionally.

In my life, the strongest evidence of any fandom is 'Sherlock' - 'Hobbit' fans are positively restrained.

'Sherlock' is one of the biggest things I will do, ever - we could never have predicted that level of insanity around the series.

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.

Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

I love the smaller scenes. I love the smaller, slightly more theatrical scenes.

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.

If it were purely up to me, my kids would probably be vegetarian Catholic Marxists.

I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.

In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.

My mum was Labour-voting, but wanted us to know we were important. Basically, everyone's equal, but you, my children, are a bit better.

Although there's an inherent light-heartedness to 'Sherlock,' I slightly err towards not doing the comedy.

I've tried not to treat Shakespeare as a marble giant.

As soon as a job finishes, I am done with it. When I'm really, really enjoying the job, I love the job, I want it to end because it's supposed to.

It's more fun playing someone who isn't just a bad guy.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

Humour is - how do I say this without sounding pompous - it's a huge part of my life.

I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.

Like, honest to God, I don't expect people to be into what I'm into.

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.