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I'm a huge Springsteen fan.
I want a regular pay cheque.
I've always been pretty nomadic.
I live a generally quiet life, as it were.
I really believe in the characters I play.
If I could afford to live in London I would.
Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.
I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician.
The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.
Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids.
I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.
I would never judge anyone for going anywhere for money.
I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China.
My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.
I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.
I was equally in love with singing and acting from an early age.
Palmer's Cocoa Butter Formula Cream - you can use it everywhere.
You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition.
Celebrity is a weird appendage, which is useless unless you do something with it.
I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat.
I don't really put my name to anything that I don't love and believe in, because there's no point.
But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.
Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.
I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way.
In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.
I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.
I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.
I don't know how you would live in the world of Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Aniston and being stalked. It's just brutal.
I waited a long time to have children because I had this career that was kind of like my kid, it required as much nurturing.
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.
I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.
I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
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.
People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up.
I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet
I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet.
You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
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.
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 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.
People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'
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.
I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy.
I'm never going to be comfortable being squished into a box, and that's why it's been weird in Hollywood, they don't know what to do with me, because I can play the game up to a point, but then I can't at all.
I can't pass a puppy, a kid or a baby without stopping. It's really annoying to every boyfriend I've ever head. My mother will roll her eyes and go, "God, really?!" But, I find children funny and great, and I love them.
I'd prefer not to be the pretty thing in a film. It's such a bloody responsibility to look cute, because people know when you don't and they're like, They're trying to pass her off as the cute girl and she's looking like a bedraggled sack of potatoes.