I don't spend a lot of time with anybody.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
Hunger is almost like something the West does. It's almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
I don't even own a car.
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
I generally do things I'm proud to be in and generally I'm in things people like.
You can ruin your life wanting to be an actor.
You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'
It's probably healthier to find fame later in life.
One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.
When you've been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.
I never mind doing press; it's never bothered me.
I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.
I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.
When it comes to casual clothing, my enthusiasm for clothes starts to waver.
When I do a play, it's like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.
I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!
More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.
I've always slightly worried the kids who play football around my house. They know I'm an actor, but felt sorry for me because they'd never seen anything I've done.
I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.
