Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
You know, you do find though that actresses spend half their lives with people lobbying to take their clothes off and then they finally do it and they get crap for it for years. I mean people still...
We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.
To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.
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 have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing. They were all doing something rather different.
One of my grandfathers, actually, having gone out there as a minister, decided he would better serve the people as a doctor. So at a very late age - at the age of 38 in fact - he changed course and...
My type happened to fit into a trend in the early 1980s for the public school type.
My looks aren't something that come dazzlingly through in everything I do. I can be made to look one way or the other fairly easily... I am still not recognised on the street that much.
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.
Italy is an enormous asset in my life now. I feel it's just a privilege for me to have actually met someone who is from a country that is so fantastic. And so a lot of it is the exploration of that...
It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.
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...
If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
I'll do Bridget Jones 2 if it's a good script. I won't be doing the Colin Firth bit though - they'll probably drop that.
I'd love to try my hand at something else.
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
I was not quite as gracious as Mark Darcy about wearing what my mother tried to make me wear. It tended to stop really, when I was quite young.
I want to say, strenuously, that although I have never considered the Darcy thing to be a problem, that is simply not going to happen.