I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

I always have bananas with me for energy.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.

I had absolutely no idea of the scale of its following and the globalness of 'Bond'.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

My best friend is my husband.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.

The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency

I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet.

A second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.

What is necessary to keep providing good care to nature has completely fallen into ignorance during the materialism era.