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" Do I think human beings are meant to be in 40-year-long monogamous, faithful, relationships? No, No, No. Whoever said they were? Only the Bible or something. No one ever said that was a good idea. "

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" Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing. "

" If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts. "

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" I think marriage is only necessary if you've got children. It's quite nice for them. "

" 'Notting Hill?' Does that poke fun at being British? Maybe it does. In 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' that's kind of the point: the clash of worlds, the unlikely combo of a respectable Englishman and a mob guy. If you take out the Britishness, you don't really have much. "

" Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business. "

" I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really. "

" The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather. "

" I'm not a hopeless romantic. I'm quite the reverse. I'm a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac. "

" After I found that I had become an actor, slightly to my surprise, I did have some insecurity, and I did take some rather strange acting classes at a place called The Actor's Studio in London. I don't think they did me any good at all. "

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" Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law. "

" I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to interfere in the editing process, and I want to interfere in the advertising process - everything, everything. Pretty much Barbra Streisand in trousers, I am! "

" In 'The Sound of Music,' I was a von Trapp daughter in a white dress with a blue satin sash, and my line was, 'I'm Brigitta. I'm 12, and all I want is a good time.' I got a laugh. And I was so delighted, I laughed, too. Sadly, that's a problem I still have - onstage, I laugh hysterically at how funny I am. "

" I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good. "

" Comedy is probably a way of dealing with anxiety. Sometimes it's a way of dealing with pain. "

" I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough. "

" I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness. "

" I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview. "

" My contemporary art collection began with just needing to put things on the wall. I was looking around my Victorian house thinking, 'What would be the coolest is contemporary art - it will make me look young and interesting.' I'm more than 80 percent skeptical of the whole thing. "

" If you do too much acting in a lead part in a feature film where you're 40 ft. high, it's rather unattractive. You can see the acting. And it's actually the right thing to do to bring as much of yourself, I believe, to the part as you possibly can - to minimize the amount of theatrical stuff that you need to do. "

" The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor. "

" Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. "

" I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off. "

" My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do. "

" 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. "

" I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name. "

" 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 certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me. "

" It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that. "

" I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city. "

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