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 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 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.

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.

Some people in my family achieved a lot, some people inherited a lot. But I turned my back on the whole thing.