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" In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest. "

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" I can set up shop anywhere. I've got my oils, I've got my yoga mat and I'm good to go. I must know good yoga classes in about 25 cities on this planet. "

" In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience. "

" I live a generally quiet life, as it were. "

" But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England. "

" I'm proud of my life. "

" People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.' "

" I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world. "

" Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule. "

" As a single mum I have to work, so I'm grateful to have the help of a wonderful and trusted nanny like I had when I was young. "

" I really believe in the characters I play. "

" Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate. "

" I will make time to eat every day. I couldn't do as much as I do, actually, if I didn't eat. "

" I really fancy Harrison Ford. I've got to say I think he's really divine. He's, like, an older man, I guess, although he's not really that old, obviously. I don't want to offend him. "

" I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor. "

" Security has come from being successful. "

" What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook. "

" You do a James Bond film, you're being part of an anachronism, a tradition. "

" I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be. "

" Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile. "

" I wouldn't go back and be 25 again for all the tea in China. "

" I've never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I'm pretty and that I get the guy. "

" As an English actress constantly playing Americans, you already had to step way out of your box in that way. "

" Growing up, I thought I'd have at least five kids. "

" I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask. "

" You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately. "

" I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out. "

" People seem to like this image of me being all boho and hippy. It's either that or I'm down on my luck, I've got no money, the work's dried up. "

" I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends. "

" I'd really like to do a biopic of a musician. "

" I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment. "