"Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style."
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"Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it."
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"You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about."
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"I'm not posh or common, I'm in between."
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"I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists."
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"I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow."
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"Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned."
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"On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think."
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"I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised."
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"True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway."
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"Sherlock and Watson are a love story"
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"Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration."
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"Your job, as an actor, is never to just do what you're told. That's boring, and life is too short. It's your job to bring something, and it will either be to other people's taste or your own taste, and you have to try things out. Actors say, "Well, as long as the director's happy," but I don't believe that and I don't agree with that. I want the director to be happy, but if I'm not happy, I won't sleep at night."
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"The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least."
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"I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog."
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"I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to."
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"Benedict (Cumberbatch, who is playing Sherlock) looks amazing. He's still got a Sherlockian silhouette, with a large overcoat, but in a classic cut. Watson dresses with an urban elegance, a touch of old school dashing, giving a feeling of both the military and medical profession. I suppose it's something they have in common as well. They're a bit metrosexual."
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"There's a difference between the parts that I play and who I am and who people think I am. There's quite a big discrepancy sometimes between those things."
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"My idea of a good night out is staying in."
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"I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas."
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