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

No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?

One man's insanity is another man's genius

Hope is but the dream of those that wake.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

The question is rarely asked, "Why is it that so few other Americans have these protections?" The question is more often asked, "Why do teachers have it so easy?"

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I have a suggestion for a new name for the developing world. Let's call it the world.

There is a massive ecosystem that has to get built that looks like a biosphere. And the various parts of that biosphere better be there.

Sol Campbell there, using his strength. And that is his strength. His strength.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side