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" I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted. "

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" I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked shocking. "

" I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting him, and I had nothing to wear. I'd ask my brother what to do, and he'd tell me to wear my dressing gown. I'd tell him I can't - it's too horrible. He'd tell me to wear his as well. So I'd meet Gorbachev wearing two dressing gowns. "

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

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

" I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact. "

" 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! "

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

" I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy. "

" At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England. "

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

" 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. "

" But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man. "

" With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor. "

" 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. "

" Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.' "

" The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That's the Lowland Scot - I'm a Highlander. We're particularly lovely and charming. "

" And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. "

" I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick. "

" I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next. "

" Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face. "

" 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. "

" Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through 'Four Weddings', I got into doing lead parts, it's a completely different thing. "

" I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen. "

" My mother was a teacher. "

" Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is. "

" I don't hate L.A., but I'm nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white omelets in the morning. "

" Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric. "

" I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career. "