Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen. "

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

" I'm such a chronic relativist, I can't hold down a strong opinion about many things long enough. "

" Courage is soldiers fighting on the front line, or people living on the bread line. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think the part of my acting career where I've been more successful, I've been incredibly cushioned. People are much too nice to you. You go into politics, and people are absolutely brutal. You've got proper enemies, and they're vicious. It's very invigorating. "

" I certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

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

" 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 mother was a teacher. "

" I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business. "

" 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. "

" 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. "