I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it’s 14 hours a day out of the house. You don’t get that time back.

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having...

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

I moved to New York from California when I was 11, so initially I was seen as the California person for a while. I didn’t feel like I was popular, but I did feel confident.

When you’re so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

There have been countless times where I’ve worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.

The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs.

I wouldn’t say I’m a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I’ll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn’t seem to add up to very...

Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking – that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make –...

What I’ve learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.

I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me.

I’m not sure how healthy bacon is in general, but I know it’s incredibly delicious.

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we’re all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it’s true.

Our marriage is between us. If we decide to continue being together or not, it’s our business.

I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, ‘Another romantic comedy?’ You see her in something like ‘Walk the Line’ and think, ‘God, you’re so great!’ And then you think, ‘Why is...

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it’s not about the ring and it’s not about the wedding. It’s a grave thing, getting married. And it’s easy to get swept...

I sort of look at some peers of mine and I think, ‘No, you’ve got it all wrong!’ I just want to tell them all to have babies and be happy and not get sucked...

It’s a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value,...

I wasn’t the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before.

I love getting cookbooks – people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away.

I’ll take my wrinkles. I don’t like the Botox thing.

I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don’t talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

I wouldn’t say I’m a mummy’s girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy’s girl.

There’s something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too.

The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get.

I’ve had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages – things most people don’t get the opportunity to do.

I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what’s fresh.

Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don’t have that many good years left in me.

I’m sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together.

I don’t eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

We feel it’s unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

I’ll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It’s a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women...

I have a very highly developed sense of denial.

My playground was the theatre. I’d sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that’s pretty seductive.

I don’t know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don’t know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of...

Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many ‘trees’ they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend...

I spend a good portion of my dinner-party conversation defending America because no matter what the political agenda, it’s still a fantastic, amazing place.

My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.

We’ve got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden – a luxury, I know, but it’s one of the best investments I’ve ever made.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

Could I use some butter and cheese and eggs in my cooking without going down some kind of hippie shame spiral? Yes. Of course I could.