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About her daughter's pet rabbit:
I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl.
Confessing she is obsessed with breasts:
I'm so fascinated by breasts because my mother didn't have them either. If I had them, I'd run up and down flights of stairs!
On being made up to look "old and haggard" for Nothing But the Truth:
They put eye bags and stuff like that on, but it's embarrassing. I did look like s**t. I had some eye bags and slightly yellowy skin put on my make up for the prison scenes. But by the end of the movie I think I had it naturally!
On her appearance in the film Whiteout:
I play a federal marshal chasing a fugitive in the Antarctic and I get horribly injured and disfigured. If you think I look bad in prison in Nothing But the Truth, wait until you see me in this one! I'm always doing movies where I'm getting beaten up, thrown down stairs, hit with blunt objects and even set on fire. I pulled off the scenes with just a few bumps and bruises.
On losing her actor father:
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.
On using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent:
It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy.
Revealing her daughter plays 'spot who's had Botox':
My daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter.
Revealing she hasn't passed her driving test after failing repeatedly for the past 18 years:
I'm looking forward to knowing how to drive because I get those anxiety dreams where I'm suddenly in control of a car on the freeway. I'm assuming those will go once I know how to drive. I drove a golf cart on holiday and did quite admirably with that. That's a start.
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. When I shave my legs, I use my child's shampoo and a razor - if I can find one. If I did everything they said I did, I would never see Lily.
As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.
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!
I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
I am going to make sure people don't ask them [her children], "Are you going to be an actor?" My mother said I could be anything I wanted except a policeman.
I can't tell you how many times I've gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That's how it goes in my house, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.
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 have a four-year-old who's just starting to get worried about monsters, but she knows that mummy kicks monster a**, so she's fine.
I look at how Keira Knightley is coiffed when she attends events. I remember going to Cannes with Much Ado About Nothing (1993) when I was 18, and nobody told me, 'Oh, here's a make-up artist or, 'This person wants to dress you, what clothes are you wearing?' It just wasn't like that when I started. Nobody even told me I could bring a friend! I just sort of showed up in a very expensive pair of trousers I bought in Harvey Nichols, and something I bought in the Sock Shop at the airport. But Keira Knightley has like full hair and make- up and a proper outfit and I think, 'Wow, she's not going to have the before photos I had to endure!' She's really lucky.
I think, at 19, I was very grown-up in certain ways and extremely not so in others. If I had come on to a movie set at that age and someone had said, 'You're a bit funny-looking, can you go on a diet?' - I might have jumped off a building. I just didn't have the confidence to put that into perspective at the time.
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.
If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.
In this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.
It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in this business, where the opportunity to think everything is about you is there every day, now I really know that it isn't all about me.
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
Now my typical daily diet is eggs or oatmeal for breakfast, a chicken or vegetable wrap for lunch, then fish and vegetables for dinner.
People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.
She Lily already has some Americanisms: she says 'pants' instead of trousers and 'elevator' instead of lift. That's more than enough for me.
There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
We had something recently when there were about 16 people in front of us taking pictures and Lily was enjoying the chance to legitimately shout at some grownups because normally she's not allowed. But even when she shouted they didn't stop. I find that shocking.
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.
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