Love Actually Quotes

In the street, people talk to you about all kinds of things, but by far, the most number of people talk to me about Love, Actually.

I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually, if somebody is isolated and dependent — it’s like the Stockholm syndrome. But you can’t compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly. It happens when you learn something, too.

More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.

It's hard when your first thing is something everyone loves. Actually, that never happened to me. I was lucky that my first film, which is actually the best reviewed of all my films, didn't have that success.

No one's ever going to shag you if you cry all the time.

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Nobody will ever love you quite the way you want them to. You just have to let them do their best.

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.

Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The person who doesn't deserve love actually needs love more, not less. If you know someone unworthy of love, that's great! You now have a chance to emulate Christ, because the essence of His love is unconditional.

Love Actually [is] one of the cutest Christmas movies.

He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.

I love you even when you're sick and look disgusting.

Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into situations in which they feel driven to humiliate themselves. Which is why we love them, especially when it's all in the name of love. He is the Bard of Embarrassment.

One fella went on the internet and got lots of photos of me in Love Actually, topless and naked and stuff, printed them off, stuck them on A4 paper, laminated them and sent them to me for me to sign. I was away and asked my husband to open all my mail for me, so he got quite a shock. And another man sent me a picture of a face where the nose was a willy.