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 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.

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

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 was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

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.