I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

I can cook to please people, but it's quite conventional. I make a good sponge cake. I find it hard to follow recipes.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge.

Life is like a boxing match, it seems, society has not been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of crime

When asked how long I've worked here I replied "since the day they threatened to fire me."

My perfect night would be going out to an awesome restaurant, then heading over to the Comedy Cellar to hang out with other comics, drinking beers and making fun of each other.

The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.

Pathology is not a problem to be solved, but the soul's way of working on itself.

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

We need to remove unworthy from our vocabulary and replace it with hope and work.

I believe in teaching, but I don’t believe in going to school.