Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.

One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

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

I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in one way, an attempt to reproduce the way people actually speak, but it's not just an attempt at naturalism. It's stylised and it's heightened, to great effect. It's elegant and it's funny and that's the way to my heart, frankly.

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.