I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since.

In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably.

Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever.

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later.

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.

The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

A beautiful person is someone who stays true to themselves and their spirit; someone who is self-confident and can make you smile.

Cheese is one of my great weaknesses, I could eat the stuff by the pound.

Denmark is like a secret little place with its own special language.

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is a wonderful little island with beautiful beaches, a great restaurant culture and friendly, welcoming atmosphere.

I felt like I was in the best photography school in the world - I had Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn teach me.

I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.

I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper.

I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.

I'm a fun person. I like cracking jokes and being completely nerdy.

If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.

It's really intimidating to go on the beach in a bikini.

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

So many times I've wanted to crack up, standing there stiff while seven women are crawling round my toes fixing hems and the designer's having a freak-out because the denim cuffs are crooked. I'm on the verge of hysteria.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,

I simply loved education. I mean, I always loved acting as well. It really was a major passion for me, but one I felt I could only fully explore once I'd completed my degree.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.

My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carole King, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles - I grew up with this music, and I was aware of how special this music was to a lot of people.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.

You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.

My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

Whatever bling always has something to hide.

I looked like Brigitte Bardot, and I was Stravinsky's goddaughter.

Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.