"What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering? For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exaltation again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you."

"Ian Brimble - Thomas"

"Fanny: People always live forever when there is an annuity to be paid them."

"Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire. Like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise."

"Josephine Gradwell - Maid to Mrs. Jennings"

"Eleanor McCready - Mrs. Bunting"

"Robert Hardy - Sir John Middleton"

"Alan Rickman - Col. Christopher Brandon"

"Emilie François - Margaret Dashwood"

"(quoting William Shakespeare) "Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken""

"Kate Winslet - Marianne Dashwood"

"Allan Mitchell - Pigeon"

"Hugh Laurie - Mr Palmer"

"Alexander John - Curate"

"Oliver Ford Davies - Doctor Harris"

"Imogen Stubbs - Lucy Steele"

"Imelda Staunton - Charlotte Jennings Palmer"

"Isabelle Amyes - Betsy"

"Elizabeth Spriggs - Mrs. Jennings"

"Hugh Grant - Edward Ferrars"

"Greg Wise - John Willoughby"

"Richard Lumsden - Robert Ferrars"

"Emma Thompson - Elinor Dashwood"

"Lone Vidahl - Miss Grey"

"Felicity Montagu — Perpetua"

"Jim Broadbent — Bridget's Father"

"Gemma Jones — Bridget's Mother"

"Sally Phillips — Shazzer"

"Renée Zellweger — Bridget Jones"

"All women keep score... Only the great ones put it in writing."

"Colin Firth — Mark Darcy"

"James Callis — Tom"

"Aloof. Unavailable. Ice queen. – Aloof. Unavailable. Ice queen. – Aloof. Unavailable. Ice queen. – quite fancy a snog though..."

"Uninhibited. Uncensored. Unmarried."

"Hugh Grant — Daniel Cleaver"

"[Answering phone] Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs... Mum... hi."

"At times like this, continuing with one's life seems impossible... and eating the entire contents of one's fridge seems inevitable. I have two choices: to give up and accept permanent state of spinsterhood and eventual eating by alsatians, or not. And this time I choose not. I will not be defeated by a bad man and an American stick insect! Instead, I choose vodka. And Chaka Khan."

"Major dilemma. If actually do, by some terrible chance, end up in flagrante surely these would be most attractive at crucial moment. [holds up thong] However, chances of reaching crucial moment greatly increased by wearing these; scary stomach-holding-in pants very popular with grannies the world over. Tricky. Very tricky."

"Shazzer. Journalist. Likes to say "fuck". A lot."

"Tom, 80's pop icon who only wrote one hit record then retired because he found that one record was quite enough to get him laid for the whole of the 90's. Total poof, of course."

"Daily call from Jude. Best friend. Head of investment at Brightlings Bank, who spends most of her time trapped in the ladies' room crying over fuckwit boyfriend."

"[Rummaging through her fridge] Where the fuck is the fucking tuna?"

"My mum, a strange creature from the time when gherkins were still the height of sophistication."

"And that was it. Right there. Right there, that was the moment. I suddenly realised that unless something changed soon I was going to live a life where my major relationship was with a bottle of wine... and I'd finally die, fat and alone, and be found three weeks later half-eaten by alsatians. Or I was about to turn into Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction."

"It all began on New Years day, in my 32nd year of being single. Once again I found myself on my own and going to my mother's annual turkey curry buffet. Every year she tries to fix me up with some bushy-haired, middle-aged bore, and I feared this year would be no exception."

"James Faulkner — Uncle Geoffrey"

"Celia Imrie — Una Alconbury"

"For anyone who's ever been set up, stood up or felt up."

"It's Monday morning, Bridget has woken up with a headache, a hangover and her boss."