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

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

" 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. "

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

" I used to pre-rehearse everything and then bring my pre-rehearsed performance to the set. Now, I'm learning to let it happen in the moment. American actors are much better at that than British actors. If I knew how to trust myself, I would have been much more relaxed. "

" I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries. "

" I just don't believe in love at first sight anymore, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. In my experience, power, money and influence always attract the opposite sex. It's something that I've always exploited - with good results. "

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

" 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. "

" For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest. "

" Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people. "

" At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards. "

" I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you're too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children. "

" Throughout my life, whenever I thought I'm dancing welI, I'm not. "

" I slightly lost my enthusiasm for most acting, but I've done some little bits and pieces - curiosities. "

" I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together. "

" A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that. "

" This guy Simon Helberg, who's in 'Florence Foster Jenkins,' I might have been vaguely patronizing to him because he hadn't done films before. Gradually, you realize, not only is the guy a much bigger star than me, he's maybe the richest man I've ever met. "

" There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world. "