Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

My grandmother was utterly convinced I'd wind up as the Archbishop of Canterbury. And, to be honest, I've never entirely ruled it out.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.