I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.

I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

At home it's all Batman and Star Wars and they do gang up on me. Sometimes I don't want to dress up as Darth Vader or play train sets, so I'll go out for a drink with the girls.

I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.

I haven't done an international film for a long time.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.

I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.

There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.

I don't like it when people don't act on their words.

I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.

I want to get up at 6 A.M. and go swimming and do 30 lengths.

I'm a strong woman.

I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.

My kids inspire me to be the person I am today - without them I wouldn't be who I am today.

My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

You want to have your hand on the ball every single play.

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

I'm a huge camper, and love hiking and mountain biking.

The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with them not as objects of contempt, but as fellow human beings.

The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing.

Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.

You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

I just loved officiating, and I hope what I did helped make it better. That's what I tell young umpires: you can have fun. I never spent a day where going out on a baseball field didn't make me feel better.

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.

As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.

Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way

For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don't belong with them, you are always an infidel.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.