I think one of the most important things I can give my children is the right to be themselves.

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.

She was too busy wishing on shooting stars

The purpose of every human life is to teach, through one's own method, the power of love.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

Maids must be wives, and mothers, to fulfil Th' entire and holiest end of woman's being.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless.

If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.