Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

I've always enjoyed sex scenes, though you're not really supposed to. The classic answer is, 'Oh, it's not sexy at all because there are so many technicians standing around.' But I've always found them extremely arousing.

I don't particularly like babies. I don't mind them for about four minutes. That's my max. After that I can't quite see what everyone's fussing about.

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