I find it hard to relax around any man who's got the second button on his shirt undone..

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes..

You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'.

I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one, and now they seem sort of meaningful and important..

When people warned me there would be long periods out of work if I became an actor, I couldn't keep a straight face because that was exactly what I h….

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty..

Actors always talk about taking their work home and I always think: 'What are you on? You just turn it off. You are at work and then you go home.'.

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis..

I don't spend a lot of time with anybody..

I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good..

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

In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually..

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

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before..

If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore..

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio..

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like..

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe..

Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs..

Standing in front of a fake mountain with fake snow falling and seven girls dressed as Santarettes will stay in my memory..

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