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" I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV! "

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" I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys. "

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" I can't help being Christian because I was brought up in Britain, and the morality of Christianity is part of the fabric of this country. "

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" I love photography, and I love the art of photography. "

" I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it. "

" It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it. "

" Wherever I am in the world, if I get free time when I'm filming I always hire a car, take to the road, drive for miles and explore. "

" It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it. "

" I was never that kind of star. I was never cast because I was gorgeous. "

" I'm not strong-willed, actually. I'm a complete pushover. I love to be told what to do. "

" I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain. "

" Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly. "

" I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role. "

" I am British. I love Britain for all its faults and all its virtues. My husband is American and I am largely based in Los Angeles, but whenever someone asks me where home is, I automatically say 'London.' "

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" I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe. "

" Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be. "

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" I drink just as much tea when I'm in Los Angeles as I do when I'm in London. I take my tea bags with me wherever I go. "

" I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them. "

" I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic. "

" All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap. "

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" I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile. "

" I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. "

" The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership. "

" I have done film, television and theatre - all at a pretty substantial level - I don't think it's possible for American actors to do that. "

" When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient. "

" I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work. "

" I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.' "

" The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents. "

" I don't get to play the same role over and over in different movies. The roles that I get to play are quite varied, which is great. "

" When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. "

" I'd like to see a much more open Monarchy, myself. I used to think they were completely useless and we should get rid of them. I don't necessarily feel that way anymore. I'm still ambivalent, I still loathe the British class system, and the Royal family are the apex of the British class system. "