When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

I think everyone is throwing happy stuff at you, and that's when you come over all humbug. It's happy stuff in your face, happy stuff is being sold to you.