One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don’t. You have compassion, you try and help people. It’s a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.
Hunger is almost like something the West does. It’s almost like the direct result of the way the West performs.
The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.
Emma Watson is adorable in the extreme. She is such a lovely person.
I speed up past mirrors.
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.
I don’t want to associate myself with any specific group of politicians.
I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don’t know what we’re like.
I generally do things I’m proud to be in and generally I’m in things people like.
When you are in something that you’re proud of and it’s funny and it’s a good night out and all of those things, there’s nothing quite like it. The rewards are proportionate to the amount of alarm and distress it causes you.
I hardly even leave my own house.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
When you’ve been going on about something for a while, it is always satisfying to discover that other people agree with you.
I think in the old days, everybody used to act really quickly because Hollywood was built by theatre people.
I never mind doing press; it’s never bothered me.
More people saw me in ‘Love Actually’ than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
I don’t do plays without jokes anymore. I’ve retired from those plays. I think it’s bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
I’m one of those weird people who doesn’t even own a computer.
It’s more than usually possible that I won’t do a play again. But Skylight is one of the great plays in the English language. I was lucky enough to be a part of it at one point in its life, and it’s a timely thing to deliver it again in the modern world.
When I do a play, it’s like agreeing to be ill for a couple of months.