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

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

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...

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...

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 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.

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.

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

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same...

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.

Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

I’m an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don’t imagine I’ll abandon that completely.

The simpler things are, the happier they are.

I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

Invest in what’s real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn’t have to be complicated. It will be what it will be.

I just had a baby. I’m not going to work unless it’s something really special and meaningful, because I can’t imagine missing all that time with my daughter.

I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?

I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I’m prepping for...

It changed me more than anything else. You don’t want to get to that place where you’re the adult and you’re palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

I don’t eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

I never thought that I’d be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

Women were real box office stars in the ’40s, more so than men. People loved to see women’s films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it’s so addictive.

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor.

It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your children think. So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I’d say, do what is right for...

In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great....

I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day.

I’m hard on myself, so I’m working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They’re my weakness.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It’s one or two or three things I’m most proud of in terms of my work....

During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.

My dad always said he couldn’t remember a time when I did not want to act.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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...