I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' was possibly too rude. 'It's in the book, ' I said. He didn't hit me.

Lindsay [Doran] goes round the table and introduces everyone -- making it clear that I am present in the capacity of writer rather than actress, therefore no one has to be too nice to me.

Paparazzi arrived for Hugh [Grant]. We had to stand under a tree and smile for them.Photographer: 'Hugh, could you look less -- um --'Hugh: 'Pained?

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

That was a hell of a thing.

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting.

Invent new drugs, that's what you should be doing... fight to get new weirder ones... and weirder establishments to do them in.

There’s no such thing as a bitter person who keeps the bitterness to himself.

Through years of secret work, scientific and basic ground work was laid, in order to be ready again to work the German Armed Forces at the appointed hour, without loss of time or experience.

You are a steward of every moment, of every talent, of every gift, of every resource that God has given you. Chose wisely what you do today!

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

You know, freedom is a very popular idea, and young people love it, and they're open to ideas. And they like principled answers to our problems.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It's my obligation to share it with the world.