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I do think I'm a character actor.
I'm just the last English twit, really.
I'd love to try my hand at something else.
You have to be ill if you want to get better.
I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap
Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.
Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.
I love 'Manhattan', and I know it's not one of Woody's favorites.
I enjoy playing Mr. Darcy, but I'm not hungry to play Mark Darcy again.
To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.
I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.
My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.
The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.
I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.
As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.
Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.
No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.
Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.
I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.
If I were to write a book about the progress of getting to a third film, it would be a long one.
Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
Something like 'A Single Man,' it was tiny; it was financed by one guy. We all lost money doing it.
Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.
We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.
Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.
I backpacked through France and Italy in my teens, and then I was at Cannes with the first movie I did in '84.
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.
I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.
Firth - all dodgy 'tache and frantic eyebrows - has got the sexual allure of a man who runs a swingers' club in Surbiton.
I don't know if this qualifies as gentle reassurance, but right now this is all that stands between me and a Harley-Davidson.
I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.
I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.
I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.
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.
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.
Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.
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.
I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.
Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.
Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.
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'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.