I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.

Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.

As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.

I'm a fan of very, very expensive creams: Creme de la Mer, La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe. I'm a huge fan. They work.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

I think it's great to grow up in a small town because you're just dying to break loose.

Growing up in Texas, mum had five girls to feed on a very limited budget, so we'd end up eating the same thing until it was gone - some weeks it was carrots.

People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.

It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.

The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

I'm a bit of a groupie.

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

I have done a lot of theater.

My mother taught us the man was the head of the family, but the woman was the neck, and you could turn him any way you like.

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

When I was 16 and arrived in France, I discovered chocolate mousse. I was crazy about the bread, too. Every morning, I'd go to the bakery and get a fresh croissant. It made me feel very sophisticated.

The thing I'm most proud of is that I've raised a lot of money for certain charities - breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing 'The Graduate' for 11 months was fantastic.

I don't really want to get married. I've got my career, my friends - my life is very, very full. It's nice to go out to dinner with a man and have fun, but I wouldn't rush into anything because I don't think it's right to bring another man into the house with my four children.

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.

Fashion is fun, but it's not that important, really, is it? It's important to have other intellectual and creative interests.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There's something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they're going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy!

I am wondering when - if - I have to cut my hair. I think it looks terrible if you have really long hair and it's gone gray. So I am experimenting with wearing it up. Up, with pearls. I think that's quite a good look.

There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.

All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.

My love of literature goes back to my childhood.

There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands.

I don't want to be remembered. I want the nice words when I can hear them.

I've had great success being a total idiot.

You can ask me anything you want. That doesn't mean I'm going to answer you.

You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a brilliant entertainer, she's a brilliant lady, and she's a wonderful human being, and the community doesn't like it.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

Nothing can stop anyone who has a love and passion about their work.

I never tell an audience what they can expect. I never have, and I never will.

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

I have always said that I cannot allow the child within me to die. It's kept me alive.

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.

You see, the people that have a point of view and have an opinion and have some intellect are dangerous in the film community - they're dangerous.