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"Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other."

"The first reaction is surely the most natural one, but not always the most correct one; thereupon, the invention of apologies."

"When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out."I'm such an idiot, he said.Cath fell between his knees and hugged him."I can't believe I said that, he said. "I can't even go nine hours without seeing you."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"

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

"My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised."

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

"I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast."

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

"I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously."

"They're not bombarding me with offers, although the ones that have come along have been too preposterous to contemplate, so it's not as if I spend every day resisting $20 million pay cheques."
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