Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

I don't eat four-legged animals, but I eat birds, I eat cheese, I eat dessert. I eat everything.

Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

I think the most important beauty lesson I've learned from my mom is to be happy in what you do.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first.