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

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

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 think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people.

The world cannot be translated; It can only be dreamed of and touched.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.

I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

I'm the type of person who listens to like sad music when I'm sad to feel sadder, and to feel sorry for myself.