I can never turn my back on a city that made me.
On his fight scene with Hugh Grant in Bridget Jones: It was a delicious experience.
Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment.
It's a very dangerous state. You are inclined to recklessness and kind of tune out the rest of your life and everything that's been important to you. It's actually not all that pleasurable. I don't know who the hell wants to get in a situation where you can't bear an hour without somebody's company.
I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.
I like playing strange characters. Some people might say it has something to do with a hidden part of myself, but I think it's a lot simpler than that: normal people are just not very interesting.
I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.
I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
Massage is the only form of physical pleasure to which nature forgot to attach consequences.
The highest Art of the Chess player lies in not allowing your Opponent to show you what he can do.