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

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" Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people. "

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" I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree. "

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

" It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another. "

" 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. "

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

" We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it. "

" 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 was in a lake in 'Love Actually', and I was attacked by some hideous aquatic beast and was rushed to the hospital by a man named Rafael! Something stung my elbow, and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing. "

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

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