If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

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

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified

I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.