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" I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends. "

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" 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. "

" The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think. "

" 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. "

" The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well. "

" People coming up and saying something nice is always welcome. But when you're being secretly photographed, that's not so nice. I would rather shake hands with someone and exchange a few words than take a selfie. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've gotten involved in producing now, so the kinds of things that are more my own choice are more possible in that field because I don't have to be castable. I can actually get involved in getting stories off the ground that no one would ask me to be in because I'm the wrong age, the wrong sex, the wrong nationality, or whatever. "

" My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. "

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

" I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird. "

" One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world. "

" My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem. "

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

" We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life. "

" 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. "

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

" I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected. I'm not playing Harry Hart because I'm the butchest actor in Britain. I'm playing it because he said I'm the last person anyone would expect to see in that role! "

" Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it. "

" They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques. "

" The thing is that anybody looks good in the right clothes. It will affect your bearing. It will affect your demeanor. It informs the way you behave. "

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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