I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

From my point of view, it's very refreshing to play a regular human being and not someone from another dimension. When I say "not act," what I mean is just to be as natural and as normal as possible.

I don't even own a car.

You have all these plans to act, and maybe do it rather elegantly, and then they turn the rain machine on.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.