You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

How come every other organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy, except the brain?

Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.

[With depression] you get a real sense of shame, because your friends go, 'Oh come on, show me the lump, show me the x-rays,' and of course you've got nothing to show.

'The Piano' is a romantic drama that really made me want to see New Zealand. When I finally did it was every bit as jaw dropping as it looked in the film. It's so virgin and green, it's like God said 'lets try again' and he got it right this time!

By the time dessert arrives I am usually so drunk, I can't remember what I'm serving.