I think I am very proud of being associated with quality things. So if I were massively famous for doing massively beloved things, yeah, that sounds great.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

It looks better when you do your own stunts because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience.

I don't think there were great beauty trends in the '90s - I was just doing my own thing.

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.

Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, to begin with, in the 1980s, it was all character acting. And then when, by fluke, through 'Four Weddings', I got into doing lead parts, it's a completely different thing.

For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.

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.

I'm very unrelaxed doing a newspaper interview.

When I think about actors I know, I'd much rather hear about who they're shagging than what film they're doing next.

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.

If it's a choice between doing a film and not doing a film, I'd rather not. But then, you remember that you're supposed to be earning a living and that it's your career.

What I am doing is kind by telling people who are useless, Do something that you’re good at.

The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children - for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him - and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.

Next year is the first year for WTO entry and we are facing an extremely serious international economic environment. Doing well on economic work next year is very important.

My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

I used to know Jennifer Love Hewitt. We lived in the same apartment building when I was about... jeez I guess it was when I was doing 'Christmas Vacation' so I was about 13 or 14.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't I've written 14 musicals now I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.