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" I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked. "

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" 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!' "

" We need to be creating products that incentivise women to come to the movies more. "

" 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. "

" The core is the most important muscle group in your body. If your core is not strong, the rest of your body is weakened, too. "

" My first trip to Italy's Tuscany region was in 1990 when my husband, Sting, recorded an album there. "

" 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. "

" Our body is the only one we've been given, so we need to maintain it; we need to give it the best nutrition. "

" As a producer, I'm quite nurturing, I like working with inexperienced, unseasoned directors. "

" I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life. "

" I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing. "

" I think having a good yoga practice and a spiritual practice is a recipe for living well and, hopefully, living longer. "

" 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 was in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' and I like my bad boy movie movies. "

" I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I took up yoga when I was trying to get my figure back after having my third child, Coco. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had operations up until I was 18, then revision on my scars to put back my eyebrows. So I've had a lot of what is called plastic surgery. And I have huge, huge respect for what that is. "

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" I enjoy the riches of life. "

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

" It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge. "

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