“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.”

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

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

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

“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 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!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”