Jeremy Brett

“The man is a thinking, feeling machine, and when I say machine, I mean it in the nicest possible way.”

“He is the dark side of the moon. And I am the light.”

“It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility, to play a character that is so beloved.”

“I'm a romantic. I'm a very soppy man.”

“I think the great thing about being an actor is that you can become other people.”

“You can't be a great actor without a great audience.”

“My performance is a love letter to Conan Doyle.”

“The terrible thing about being an actor is that you're totally pushed into the corner of having to be popular.”

“I wanted to be the best Sherlock Holmes that I could be.”

“Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would be terrible in Shakespeare. It's a different muscle.”

“The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an actor is the present.”

“The problem with being a manic-depressive is that half of the time you don't know you're manic.”

“I am a perfectionist, which is a curse and a blessing.”

“An actor is a kind of public psychologist.”

“Holmes had a cat-like mind. He was a creature of the night. He was a drug addict. He was a lonely man.”

“Holmes is a volcano. It is a dormant volcano, but a volcano.”

“I'm not a star. I'm an actor.”