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

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children have with their parents, teachers, and with each other carry emotional messages.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Dogs never lie about love.

Life is a series of random collisions.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

A character is a completely fashioned will.

To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?

I only form an opinion when I feel that I've done sufficient research and have sufficient access to information.