People believe in you more after you've won an Oscar, but it's up to you what choices you make.

Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'

Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

Most of the time we do nothing, myself included, I think the lesson I learned from [playing humanitarian Tessa in The Constant Gardner] is that a lot of drops make up an ocean. If people would stand up and say what they believe in maybe we can make a difference. Helping one person is better than nothing. Just do something.