On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: 'Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

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.

I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

It's a lot harder to be clear-headed, but the good stuff is when you start realizing who's really you.

When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.

perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

People Watch Luck Go by Them and They're Blind - They Never Reach out and Grab It.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

At the end of six innings of play, it's Montreal 5, Expos 3.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

Terrorism is partly linked to people who have no jobs in Pakistan.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.