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" Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating. "

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" Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or 'mind traffic' that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness. "

" If I'm connected to an idea, it just doesn't let me go. All I have to do is catch up to the image in my head by doing the practical steps to get there. "

" We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women. "

" The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes. "

" I always seem to have a good time when I'm interviewed. I really enjoy the whole process of meeting another person and having that exchange, but you know, if I'd read all my press collectively, I know I'd just say, 'Well, I don't think I'll ever be interviewed again, thanks very much!' "

" The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege. "

" Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house. "

" I've never really had a sense that I am just Mrs. Sting. Indeed, I am Mrs. Sting and very proud and very happy that I am still Mrs. Sting, as opposed to Mrs. ex-Sting. But I'm a very busy person, so I've always done things and got on with my life. "

" We're a busy family. We like challenges, and we like to be fully engaged with life. I've done that as long as I've been with Sting. "

" When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present. "

" I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was. "

" Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school. "

" Seeing our kids as grown up and taking their places in the world is just fantastic. "

" Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died. "

" I hope when people see that female-led production companies are working, there will be more of us. "

" In life, you see younger men and older women, and the majority of marriages don't have such a huge age gap as we're used to seeing in films. "

" Yoga is the best holistic workout and body toner there is. It sorts out a chaotic mind and calms the body - it is how I de-stress - or stop myself getting stressed in the first place. "

" There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy. "

" My daughter Mickey is an actress, and I tell her women need to make their own films; they should always be looking for stories to develop themselves and go to acting class - not that she needs much prompting in that! "

" I don't feel I want to complain about anything that's said about me. "

" I've had a few ghostly encounters. "

" I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that's my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company. "

" I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details. "

" As a late teenager, I had some puppy fat on me, and I noticed that I could put on weight. I have always been very disciplined because my mother was very beautiful, a very pretty woman, but she was immobilised by obesity. At her biggest, she was about 17 stone. And she was always on some sort of fad diet. "

" The scars on the face have always given me a sense that I'm not a very attractive person. I'm always unsure of myself, of my facial self. "

" I gave birth to our daughter Coco in Pisa, and it was a wonderful time in all our lives. "

" I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door. "