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" 'A great British icon' is not the phrase I'd use about anybody, but there are people you admire that happen to be British. I think it's a phrase that gets attached to anyone who's been around long enough to become overfamiliar. "

" A life of very, very serious, po-faced films would drive me nuts. I need - and I'm fortunate to have - a fairly varied menu in that respect. I mean, I was shooting 'Mamma Mia!' at the same time as I was doing Michael Winterbottom's 'Genova'. That was a very, very bizarre summer. "

" Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real. "

" As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff. "

" Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering. "

" Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome. "

" Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family. "

" Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood. "

" I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects. "

" I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. "

" I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84. "

" I can't imagine seeing Batman in black and white. It was such a colourful TV series. I know. I'm ancient. It wasn't abnormal to be without a television in those days. People who had colour were special. "

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" I'd love to try my hand at something else. "

" I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments. "

" I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine. "

" I do think I'm a character actor. "

" I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again. "

" I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way. "

" If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one. "

" If one lazily thinks of what a fashion designer might do if he's going to conquer cinema next, it would be taking the opportunity to display his fashion sensibilities. "

" If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. "

" If you play a role, you want to familiarize yourself with that person's world. If I were playing an airline pilot or a doctor, I'd probably want to hang out with a doctor or an airplane pilot for a while, ask some questions. You don't get to hang out the kings. They don't help consult on movies. So your resources are, by necessity, secondary. "

" I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth, but one of them was that he doesn't rehearse, and another was that he doesn't really direct. If he doesn't like it... he cuts it out of the movie or even replaces you. And he doesn't talk to you. "

" I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse. "

" I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year. "

" I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky. "

" I love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites. "

" I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs. "

" In filming, you're waiting - you're waiting for lights, you're waiting for people to set things up - and when you're not waiting, you're repeating. "

" In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me. "

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