As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

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

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

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!

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

There is space in the supermarket shelf for all of us.

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.

We gain knowledge from education we gain wisdom from knowledge and experience.

It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.

To be respected, respect others.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

I was a closet stutterer.

It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome superhero.