I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

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 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.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.

If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

The strength of this country lies in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights and the freedom of speech and thought.

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.