"My mother was a teacher."
"With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor."
"The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather."
"You know everyone loves to be the villain."
"When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next."
"Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment."
"The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do."
"The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny."
"The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor."
"Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people."
"Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before."
"Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric."
"Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is."
"I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact."
"I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail."
"I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that."
"I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen."
"I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do."
"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
"I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!"
"But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way."
"And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring."
"And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow."
"Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing."
"Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred."
