In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly. So, yes, divorce is talked about a lot, but it's so much more fun to be able to spin it with dark humour, rather than talk about real people's divorces.

I love my job but it takes a lot for me to leave my kids, leave my husband and leave my dogs.

A great politician has great charisma.

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

I believe I was born to breed.

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.