As long as people want to see me in movies, and as long as I find it interesting, I'll keep working.

If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway thereto turning heads.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself.

Underwear is such an emotional thing.

The birth of my sons. The birth of new emotions...what a privilege. What a blessing.

I like colourful knickers, but most importantly a great pair of knickers should be taken off with more joy than they were put on.

Women are too critical of themselves

Grief ends up giving you the two best things: softness and illumination.

Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or - or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.

I want to keep my private life private.

The fiercest fire is hatred.

I believe in public services.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer.

With you, intimacy colors my voice. Even 'hello' sounds like 'come here'.