I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.
In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra. Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough attention to women’s breasts?
Something about teaching is curiously attractive, actually. I don't know what it is.
I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.
I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of way, got married very young, when you're too young to be cynical or jaded and just started having children.
I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
I'm not a great believer in marriages as an institution, or even in very long term relationships. I'm not sure we're built that way.
I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.
Some newspapers in Britain have become closer to these kind of mafia families. They wield an incredible power. They choose our governments, they choose our prime ministers, and they live above the law.
At my school, which was all boys, I played almost exclusively lady parts. When I say lady parts, I mean parts that were ladies. To actually play lady parts would be weird, even by English standards.
I don't hate L.A., but I'm nervous about becoming one of those people who has a ferocious interest in how films did at the box office that weekend and, you know, would want to meet for egg-white omelets in the morning.
Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'
If every play was three weeks, I'd do lots of plays. It's just the idea of six months, I think, that might drive me a bit nuts.
I'm a great believer in eccentrically-shaped modern families. Because I've seen them work so well. And as long as everyone loves each other, it can work very well.
I dreaded the dance scene in 'Love Actually' more than having my teeth extracted.
I have known a few good marriages, but very few. And others look to me like they're pretty miserable. I don't really think that's a recipe for happiness.
Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.
I wasn't aware I was trading on my good name; I've never had a good name.
All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman.
'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.
I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.
I had a kiss with Raquel Welch's daughter - she was a very naughty kisser.
I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.
I certainly hated actors and, more importantly, they hated me.
Although I'm largely doing other things in life, it's very nice occasionally to put my toe back in the waters of show business.
Throughout my life, whenever I thought I'm dancing welI, I'm not.
I get more satisfaction out of comedy stuff. I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.
I don't do much acting anymore anyway, and not to work for 20th Century Fox is really the least of my worries.
There was a phase in my career in my late 20s and 30s when I was doing strange, arty-farty Euro films that were, you could tell, never had much chance of any release anywhere in the world.
