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" Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before. "

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" If it's a choice between doing a film and not doing a film, I'd rather not. But then, you remember that you're supposed to be earning a living and that it's your career. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about. "

" Theater has always been much more fun. You get a laugh, and it's really encouraging. "

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

" I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I get very annoyed when people think I'm nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I'm a nasty piece of work, and people should know that. "

" The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather. "

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

" Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred. "

" The emphasis in 'Notting Hill' was perhaps, I thought, slightly more on the romance than on the comedy. But I think 'Mickey Blue Eyes' is maybe slightly more on the comedy. And the tone on 'Mickey Blue Eyes,' it's a far sillier film. "

" 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've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to interfere in the editing process, and I want to interfere in the advertising process - everything, everything. Pretty much Barbra Streisand in trousers, I am! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow. "

" For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes. "

" 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'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. "

" All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman. "

" 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. "