More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone.

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I had in mind.

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.

I'm not a royal family watcher.

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

This should never have happened, Brishen. We were unimportant, you and I. We weren't supposed to mean anything to anyone.""Woman of day, " he said slowly. "You mean everything to me.

I guess you just have to trust your kids, trust that their innate interest in life will win out in the end, don’t you think?

Her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

Islam doesn't have a monopoly on violence in Africa. And violence plays a particularly critical role in places where statehood is weak at best, such as the Maghreb.

The craft work becomes a mediator between me and my secrets, between me and the listener.

I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.