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I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical.

I'm just the last English twit, really.

I do think I'm a character actor.

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas ... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

Some people would say comedy draws from some dark places, from your dark stuff. Life's great optimists aren't necessarily the funniest people.

Whenever you take on playing a villain, he has to cease to be a villain to you. If you judge this man by his time, he's doing very little wrong.

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

I have a kind of neutrality, physically, which has helped me. I have a face that can be made to look a lot better - or a lot worse.

The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.

We've always been involved with America - I have a son who lives there and it's a big part of my life.

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.

I'd love to try my hand at something else.

On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.

I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.

You have to be ill if you want to get better.

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.

No matter how much technique you draw on or how much training you have, acting is a mystery.

Firth - all dodgy 'tache and frantic eyebrows - has got the sexual allure of a man who runs a swingers' club in Surbiton.

As much as the next person, I want to be approved of, but I'm not greedy for that stuff.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap