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

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

" I got called Scarface at school. "

" The great thing about acting is you don't have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through. "

" I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock. "

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

" Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere. "

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

" Yoga is immediately rewarding, whatever your level, because it's not about being able to attain the perfect lotus position. Each day, there is an improvement on the day before. It's not competitive; it's not a race. With yoga, the journey is the destination. "

" My life is extravagant. "

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

" There are some things I feel the need to pussyfoot around that I would like to... give vent to. But I realise the press isn't the place to do that. "

" Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term. "

" 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 very emotional about my animals. "

" 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. "

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

" I love women; I have women friends, but I'm definitely a heterosexual. "

" 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. "

" We're all born into this world. Some are placed gently, others thrust into it, and still others abandoned. "

" I'd like to see more female heads of studios because what's also being crucially lost is the female perspective: 50% of the population are not having their stories told. "

" There'll be years of teething problems searching for alternatives to oil, but they have to be embraced with passion because our oil is finite, and we're running out. Fact. "

" Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia. "

" I don't want to criticise my country, but there are times I feel Sting and myself have been treated unkindly. "

" We should be looking at the bigger picture. It's all very well going around driving our Priuses, but we have to look to our governments to make us less reliant on oil. "

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" I'm a bit of a vegetable freak, so we'll often have four or five different varieties on the table. "