I'm relaxed naked as long as there is no one else there. I speed up past mirrors.

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.

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.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

I like being in kids' movies, and I like being in family movies.

I used to joke that one of the reasons there was a lack of classical work on my CV was because I couldn't operate in those kinds of trousers. Which is a joke, but it's actually also true - if I want to appear in public I want to look my best. If I'm onstage I like to do contemporary work, largely because of the trousers, because of the clothes. I like a decent, what we used to call a lounge suit. Then I can start to motor.

I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.