Jeremy Brett Quotes

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“Trying to be Sherlock Holmes is like trying to catch an arrow in mid-flight.”

As related at Playing Holmes http://www.icons.org.uk/theicons/collection/sherlock-holmes/features/playing-holmes-in-progress

“Holmes is the hardest part I have ever played - harder than Hamlet or Macbeth. Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.”

Jeremy Brett

Terry Manners, The Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes - The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett, p. 212. Virgin Publishing Ltd., London, 2001, ISBN 0 7535 0536 3

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