Happy Birthday Hugh Grant!

If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

Gute Kunst sollte funktional sein. Wie ein schöner Tisch, Stuhl oder Mantel. Und wenn einer behauptet, er habe seine Seelenqualen in Kunst transformiert, sollte man sofort die Flucht ergreifen.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Vier Wochen Golf spielen ist ein toller Spaß, den Sie auch mal versuchen sollten – aber im zweiten Monat beschleicht einen ein mulmiges Gefühl. Das Nichtstun ist ein merkwürdiges Dasein. Im dritten Monat setzt bei denkenden Menschen die Volldepression ein.

But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.

Jeder Mensch ist eine Insel. Ich bin Ibiza.

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.

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.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

At home, I hardly ever leave London. I don't like the countryside in England.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's astounding, but I don't see any similarity between us. Except for the fact that I'm told he used to wear ladies' underwear, which is something I also do.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

I find it hard to understand why Scorsese has never called. You know, given the natural menace I bring to the screen.

I think maybe in a way it gets worse because you come in with a real reputation and they've paid you lots of money and all that.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.