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.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.

But in the new math approach the important thing is to understand what youre doing rather than to get the right answer.

What an amazing place Beacon Hills is.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag: the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing.

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

What I learned was the quality of continual reinvention.

Clutter is not just physical stuff. Its old ideas toxic relationships and bad habits. Clutter is anything that does not support your better self.

What is a home without children? Quiet.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern.

When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

I think that, in the beginning, you think, 'I want to be the biggest movie star in the world.' And then, with the more movies you make, you are like, 'I don't know if I want to be that anymore. I think what I am looking for is something different.' I like acting, but a lot of times, stardom comes with a lot of strings attached.

A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured passion, but real involvement. And there's very little fear.

I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.