Comedy can't be about continuous success.
Don't get me wrong - I'm a big fan of things American - but when American people do British stuff, it's so universally dreadful.
Rehearsals are one of my favourite things in the world.
I don't want to sound like a grumpy old man, but nothing winds me up more than people saying, 'Chill out' to me when I'm irritated!
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames.
I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.
I like out, I like the outside world.
I don't want to be alone; the thing I love about acting is the other people you're doing it with.
I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.
Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
I've not been called on to do a lot of accent work.
I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.
Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?
I like the quiet life sometimes. I also love a bustling press conference sometimes as well. I love a 600 metre red carpet.
In London we give ourselves a pat on the back, rightly, for not killing one another, for our prejudice being subtle rather than lethal.
On the surface, you think you wouldn't have to think at all about being asked to play Bilbo in 'The Hobbit.' It's not prison; it's a good gig. But you know it's going to take a long time, and it does. There are times when you thought: 'Gee, I've not seen my house for months.'
I've always been attracted to darkness.
I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.
I like things that are simple, such as an alarm clock.
I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.
Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.
I like bootcut jeans in a plain style with a nice line.
I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.
I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.
I've always got my eye on my deathbed.
I love watching Billy Bob, just as a punter anyway. I like his work. But working with him is really easy and really straight-forward. He's immediately good. He doesn't have to work up to it. He doesn't make your life difficult. He listens. He's a very good listener, in terms of his acting.
If everyone's just saying what they feel and doing whatever they want, there's no drama in the world. And there's also no truth to it, 'cause that's just not the truth.
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I keep forgetting to think of 'Charles II' as a costume drama.
I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.
The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so many times.
I'm one of the few people I know who believes in God.
I can't actually believe how good 'The Sopranos' is. I genuinely am dumbfounded by it. It's like when you realize how good The Beatles are, and you think, 'How did they do that?'
I've been well-known in Britain for a long time.
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.
You have to, in a way, just get your head down and do the work and not expect every day to bring riches and not expect every minute to bring wild excitement, 'cause it just doesn't. It doesn't on films, anyway.