Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Being English, I always laugh at anything to do with the lavatory or bottoms.

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

Breast cancer is being detected at an earlier, more treatable stage these days, largely because women are taking more preventive measures, like self-exams and regular mammograms. And treatment is getting better too.

Yes you have personality, but dogs have personality. The audition, if I’m being honest with you, was horrible.

I’m not being rude, but you were that bad honestly. I mean my pen has got more charisma.

Last year, I described someone as being the worst singer in America. I think you’re possibly the worst singer in the world.

There is as much chance of you being a pop star or a rock star as me flying to the moon tomorrow morning for breakfast. It’s never going to happen.

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.

Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us.

Don’t let small obstacles be in the way of being victorious. Remember you are stronger than the challenges you face.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

I tell you, in this world being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.

Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.

Geographically Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.