I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

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.

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

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

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

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.