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" 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. "

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" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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 was not a very... um... not a very popular girl. I think a lot of it was, you know, no boo-hoo about it - but I looked pretty strange for the first few years of my life. "

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

" I could only imagine myself being successful. "

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