I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.

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

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.

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

When a movie is called 'searingly honest,' it's almost invariably grim and demonstrates how bad things can get.