If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

Yes, because it's Len's obsession with practical. I've never really had that experience that I hear people having of being on an empty soundstage painted green talking to a tennis ball on a stick.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I cant sing that great and I havent yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

Obviously I've had great experiences with people I've worked with on films - I've married half of them! I should come with a warning sign that says, 'Don't worry, I'm not going to try to marry you. I'm done.'

My life has not been predictable. I never would have imagined I'd be living where I'm living, doing what I'm doing or married to an American guy. I'm interested to see what will happen next!

Theres such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just cant compare yourself to people in magazines.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

But it still feels like it's a reach for me. I am more comfortable doing a drama. I feel like I know what I'm doing a bit better there. But it's good to be scared.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

I'm glad I've never been so successful that I couldn't stop doing one thing. I've kind of been able to just kick it along and switch around.

I have found being a mother has made me emotionally raw in many situations. You heart is beating outside your body when you have a baby.

Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I think actors always like to think they don't bring the character home, and then their family all laugh and tell you otherwise.

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.

I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini wax. See what Hollywood does to you?

I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.

On her daughter's pet rabbit: I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.

Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.

I am a Death Dealer, sworn to destroy those known as the Lycans. Our war has waged for centuries, unseen by human eyes.

I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

Job-wise I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago but I hate when people vomit.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

Sleep is like the holy grail. My trainer says if you're tired, your workout will suffer. Sleep is magic stuff.

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.

As an actor, your motives and your own crazy psyche is really all you're responsible for in the movie.

I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

I have a husband who literally worships me. And cleans the house. And blow-dries my daughter's hair.

Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

People keep asking me about it but I don't want to be famous for being a former anorexic.

I feel like I've done a bunch of period stuff and then a bunch of romantic comedies.

I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.

I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.

Always argue over text so other people aren't embarrassed!

I'm surprised there aren't more celebrities in burkhas.