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On her duel/strip scene from The Mask of Zorro (1998):
I kept thinking 'Thank God I have long hair in this movie'.
On landing the part of Velma Kelly in Chicago:
Did I want this role? That's like saying did I want to wake up in the morning wanting to breath!
On life as a movie star:
People do everything for me, and I've forgotten how.
On The Mask of Zorro (1998):
This film holds a lot of meaning to me, both professionally and personally. I actually met my husband when I was promoting the film in Deauville, France, and it was such an amazing time for me, being completely unknown, really, in America or in Mexico, where I shot the first one. It's a very important film for me and it's very close to my heart.
On the relationship between husband Michael and son Dylan:
He [Michael] makes excellent pancakes and he's pretty good at waffles. We were trying to explain to Dylan that we made movies and he went, 'Hang on a minute! Mom makes movies, you make pancakes!' So my two-time Oscar-winning husband who has a career of 40 years looks at me and says, 'Oh! It's come to that!'
On what makes a man irresistible:
Humor and that wonderful word called 'charisma.' You cannot translate it. I can't nail it on the head, other than to just say that I'm completely over the top about my husband.
Revealing her perceived self-confidence is an act:
I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know. Sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armour that people see more than they see you.
Speaking on the Internet and its fascination with celebrities and porno:
I don't go into the triple-X sites. I'm certainly not going to pay money to see myself naked, when I can just go into the bathroom and whip it off for free.
After Scottish actor Sean Connery presented her with the Oscar: A Scotsman giving a Welsh girl an Oscar - oh my God!.
After The Mask of Zorro (1998), people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.
All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me.
At night, before I go to bed, I check on the kids to make sure they're still breathing. But that's easy because my kids snore. We all snore. We're like an orchestra.
Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?
For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
I came out of the womb wearing make-up!
I carry a lot of jewelery with me, but I often get worried something is going to happen. My mother-in-law says that a woman should never put something on you can't afford to lose.
I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.
I have to drag myself down to the gym, like everyone else. But when I finish, i can eat more sandwiches.
I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.
I love my lawyer. I have to say that of course!
I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.
I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people, that I started to get any work.
I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.
I wish I was born in that era: by dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses.
I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.
I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.
In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.
In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes "So what you doing now?" And I go, "Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins". And they go, "Ooh, good". And that's it.
No one's more feminist than me, but you can still be smart, bright, and attractive.
There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.
To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'
When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don't do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.
Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
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