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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail. "

" You know everyone loves to be the villain. "

" If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships. "

" I think I'm rather young and sprightly, but then you see pictures of yourself and think, 'Who is that old man?' and I realise I'm not as young as I thought I was. "

" 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! "

" My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's always more fun to be an anti-hero. They're more interesting. "

" I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy. "

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

" I've certainly had a bad attitude to my job on many occasions. Not since 'Four Weddings and a Funeral'. I've been rather a good boy and really given it everything when I've accepted a part since then, because I've been given much better parts in films. "

" When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next. "

" 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. "

" When I finished my degree at Oxford, I went and acted for a bit. And I was appalling. And with each part, I thought, 'Well, that's embarrassing. I'd better do one more to show people I'm not that bad.' And, in fact, instead of a taking a year, that's gone on for 35 years. "

" I don't want to see the end of popular print journalism. "

" '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. "