I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.

I'm scared of karaoke. I think if I did have a go to karaoke song, it would be 'Whatta Man' by Salt-n-Pepa.

I love watching a good, freaky horror movie. I love it. It's one of my favorite things to do, to go and see at the cinema. Just to tune out and be freaked out.

I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.

I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.

I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.

My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.

Whether it is television or film, the character on the page has to speak to me.

I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children led.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives.

Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.

Art is, from any point of view, the greatest of risks.

Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to find good situations and exploit them.

I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

As desire recedes, the world becomes clear, pale, and empty.

I only really and truly fully relax on my own. Give me a sun lounger, a pool and a sea view, and I'm happy.