Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.

As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.

I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.

Am I calm all the time? That is a question to ask my mother. I am very happy in my home. I have a good family, that gives me something extra.

I love my brother, I love my dad, actually love my mother as well, hope that's ok. And I admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make.

The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart.

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative.

You can't be jealous and be a leader.

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.

Parents should talk to their children, even when they are babies and can't talk back.