There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you’d rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you’ve got to have fun with it.
I’m always playing characters with intellects profoundly superior to mine. That’s great fun, even though it’s as much a fantasy for me as for the people watching me.
I am very flattered. I have also become a verb as in “I have cumberbatched the UK audience” apparently. Who knows, by the end of the year I might become a swear word too! It’s crazy and fun and very flattering.
I was thrilled with how the first series of ‘Sherlock’ was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received.
It’s interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That’s what I mean. Also, of course, it means that I’m slightly setting up the audience that there’s a bit of fun involved, as well.
The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
Jack Lemmon is my best friend and he’s a very wonderful actor. A very talented, very funny man. A lovely man. We’re like brothers! We are gifts to each other. He’s such a fun personality. There will only ever be one Jack Lemmon.
Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They’re the best girls in the world – they’re loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they’ll try to kill you.
When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on weekends. I had studied most of the other series heroes and I figured it would be fun for mine to be different and put him in and around water. So I dreamed up Dirk Pitt.
You have to be able to do a bunch of things at once, and not think about things you’re not doing while you’re doing other things. You have to be disciplined about not trying to do everything, all at the same time. It’s hard and fun.
It’s more fun to experience things when you don’t know what’s going to happen.
My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I’m able to tell little stories that don’t necessarily carry a whole episode in terms of narrative. I like the audience not being sure what they’re getting. I think it’s more fun to watch something when you’re discovering it as you go along.
Not that they were there to have fun – although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.
When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it’s for many different reasons. I’ve had the opportunity to have fun. I don’t know why that is, but I like it.
The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what’s real and what’s interesting.
There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.
I’ve played my fair share of unpleasant character, and I have to tell you that you sleep better when you’re playing fun characters. You think you don’t take it home with you, at the end of the filming day, but subconsciously, there’s something floating around in the background there.
Get money, have fun and treat a woman like she’s a queen.
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, ‘Man, you were so honest – can’t you have some fun? Can’t you do some really down and dirty lying?’ But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I’ll be punished.
It’s no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It’s always changing. I’m changing. The target keeps moving. That’s the beauty of it.