If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

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.

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

Success is achieved when we add value to ourselves. Significance is when we add value to other. Success is attracted to people of value and significance

The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.

When you finally understand the universe, it will not only be stranger than you imagine, it will be stranger than you can imagine.

This is the moment behind which I could forget every other moment that has passed.

I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second

No one contends that the other Amendments that preserve rights of 'the people' -the First, Fourth, Ninth and Tenth-do not preserve individuals' rights. The same must be true of the Second.

Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim.

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

Thinking is action..... but there is nothing on this earth as powerful as consistent, bold, physical action.