I did become quite well known from 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', and it helped hugely. I wasn't as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work.
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.
The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
I'm not a quick wit. I'm only funny on paper. I mean, I'm not totally humorless! It's just that in person, I'm not quite the way I am on paper.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
I've found in my life that the parts that you're right for are the parts that you get. It's really usually quite easy because you're kind of right.
I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.
It would be far to general a statement to try and describe the daily life of an actor in Hollywood, but I am quite certain that cappucinos have something to do with it.
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow, but she just brings the stage to life.
My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.
I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.
I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.
