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.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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’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.

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

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.