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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" It's a very ancient culture, British culture. You can't be seen to be too wealthy, and you certainly can't be seen to be giving away any of your wealth either because that's sort of vulgar, too. It's funny, that, because in New York, if you are wealthy, you have to be philanthropic to be successful. "

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

" I like green juices in the morning, made from things such as kale, and cucumber and peppers; then in the afternoon, when the blood sugar goes down, I'll make a carrot, apple, and ginger juice. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I've got to like myself, I think, through my relationship with Sting, who pours love over me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 life is extravagant. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'd never thought of directing as an option for me. I don't know why, because I'm incredibly bossy. I was surprised how collaborative it is. As the producer, you have to get the money and schedule on time, and that's not what I do best. "

" At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down. "

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

" Pilates has been the perfect solution to maintaining strength and vitality in my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I didn't really have many friends as a child. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned. "

" We are putting value in the things that really are not valuable, things like commodities or disposable stuff that can bought, but the rainforest has been undervalued, because the value shouldn't be in the trees that you take out; it's should be with leaving the trees to preserve the life system that sustains life on the planet. "

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