I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, 'No one's being nice enough to me!'

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

I feel like I'm really lucky.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

I'm a fan of action movies.

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

Naturally, people are curious about how my real mom feels about me having a TV mom.

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting.

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.

For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.

I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.

I think a lot of the best ideas come from the grassroots; I'm someone who does not like a bunker mentality and does not like groupthink.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.

What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her.

But I do believe this - I believe that fundamentally, society is headed in the right direction or wants to head in the right direction, and I think judges have an obligation to try to help it head there.

It is strange, but nobody is shocked when pop singers make a fortune in the space of two years.

Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.