When you are in something that you're proud of and it's funny and it's a good night out and all of those things, there's nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.

I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.

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

My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.

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.

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.