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" When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind. "

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

" 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. "

" The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes. "

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

" 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. "

" I enjoy the riches of life. "

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

" I think David Cameron is really not very passionate about the environment. He said all the right things. I don't think he's come through with anything that's tangible. "

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

" Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult - those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going? "

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

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

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

" The scars on the face have always given me a sense that I'm not a very attractive person. I'm always unsure of myself, of my facial self. "

" I'm not an unkind person, but by the same token, I'm not a people-pleaser. "

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

" Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser. "

" 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. "

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

" When I first met Clint Eastwood, I bobbed him a curtsy. I still cringe about that to this day. "

" I have such a fortunate life that of course I will have my detractors. I have a very endowed life. "

" 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. "

" My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies. "

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

" I'm largely health-conscious and work out during the week, but I don't punish myself at the weekends. "

" Telling women's stories is really important. "

" 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 could only imagine myself being successful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "