I just look for interesting supporting-biggish supporting parts, and try to do one a year, and that's my limit. Some women can do it and that's fantastic, but I can't. You make choices as a wife and mother, don't you? You can't have it all. I don't care what it looks like.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

Mornings and afternoons are my family time and I'm lucky that I can drop the kids off at school, I don't have to be at the office or anything.

Every time I have a bikini wax, Cameron Diaz holds me down.

I try to take care of my hair because it sort of has to withstand a lot of blowdrying and ironing.

He [Chris Martin] can't have background music on. It has to be 100 percent of his attention. But if he isn't at home, I turn on the hip-hop. I'm like a bad mutha rapping along to every word as I cook.