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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.
I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean.
If I had a child, I wouldn't let them go to drama school. At times, I was really unhappy there.
It doesn't matter how old you are, or what you do in your life, you never stop needing your mom.
Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.
We're the kind of family that gets together for Sunday lunch. I see my younger sister all the time.
I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
I went up to Meryl Streetp and said 'I love you so much I want to tongue kiss you' And she said 'OK'.
On the whole, the politics of moviemaking is something that actors are kind of blissfully ignorant of.
It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
I look very different from how people expect me to be... Clearly they think I'm a great big fat viking.
There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict.
I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
I don't read any reviews, so I'm oblivious to what they have to say. I'm completely unaware. It's fantastic.
The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.
I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
I kept my head; I mean, I've never been one of those people who ended up in the gutter with sick in my hair.
I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask.
I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.
I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.
There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
Everybody asks me this, whether I'm slightly annoyed that I didn't get to kiss Johnny Depp. We would have laughed.
Sometimes people ask, 'What do you wish for your children?' and all I say is, 'I want them to be happy being them.'
Femininity for me means happiness and freedom...freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.
I find it very difficult to wear nice, pretty shoes. I'm much more comfortable in boots or Birkenstocks or loafers.
I think any form of self-expression is half confidence, half sheer hard work and, maybe, a bit of talent thrown in.
My children can't see many of the films that I've been in because I'm always either dying or taking my clothes off.
I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.
You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
I'm only 5-foot-6, but people think I'm sort of a great big Viking woman. I'm not - I'm completely normal and average.
My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me; that is it.
I'm not a believer in hiding things from my kids because ultimately they are going to have questions - they feel things.
I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.
The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.
I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.