You know everyone loves to be the villain.- Hugh Grant
Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you are quite battle-scarred.
With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.
When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.
Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I do not see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I am told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.
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.
The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.
The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.
Strangely enough I am better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.
Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.
Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.
Most actors really love it, that is what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that is 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.
I am a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
I think that is the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
