Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

I do think that despite my best efforts to resist it, I am now a grown-up. It's due to lots of very difficult decisions that you make over a long period of time - about motherhood, wifehood, and work, and all the things that one has to make decisions about.

My worst quality is impatience.

I firmly believe there are books whose greatness actually enable you to live.

Tell him I mind having to look pretty, that's what I mind, because it is so much more of an effort.

~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners.... The one thing you've got to be prepared to do as a parent is not to be liked from time to time.~

I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.