Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean it's true.
So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
Lots of people there seemed to be in denial in absolute denial of death – everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A. if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day you might not die.
I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says 'Go buy a postage stamp in London' I'll go and do it.
I'm still shy – I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
I'm physically completely mal-coordinated. My best friend used to make me run for the bus just to give herself a quick cheap laugh because I definitely don't have that sophisticated cool thing down.
51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!
I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true in the first day of borrowing the car I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.
Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
I was terribly shy when I was growing up I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool amazing person that I wanted to be.