I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

Well, that's the old story I heard about the Jackie Chan films. That, like, Jackie Chan will just keep going and when crew members drop he just replaces them. I don't know if that's true but after having worked in Japan I believe it might be true.

Really, how bad is eating a piece of cake? Being bad is murdering someone. That's bad. Don't do that.

It used to be only on TV that women could lead, that a show could be based on a woman

I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.

There's no such thing as a supermom. We just do the best we can.