"I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom."

"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."

"I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks."

"I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?"

"I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique."

"I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way."

"We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made."

"Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace."

"I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year."

"I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs."

"There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work."

"I love to cook and feed people. I cook every day."

"Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?' You see her in something like 'Walk the Line' and think, 'God, you're so great!' And then you think, 'Why is she doing these stupid romantic comedies?' But of course, it's for money and status."

"What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it."

"I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties."

"I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist."

"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 eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable."

"I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing."

"Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother."

"I wouldn't say I'm a mummy's girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy's girl."

"I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death."

"In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things."

"I really like cooking according to the season. I like to get creative with what's fresh."

"I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away."

"When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously."

"After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting."

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

"I'm sort of getting into the idea of nourishing your inner aspect and doing that by investing in your family and making a meal and creating time together."

"During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well."

"Invest in what's real. Clean as you go. Drink while you cook. Make it fun. It doesn't have to be complicated. It will be what it will be."

"When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."