"I am a city girl I think, at heart."

"I have always liked lionesses. Female lions have always seemed like the best. They were really strong and took care of their babies and are beautiful."

"I don't ever feel like I have it all together."

"Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience."

"Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy."

"Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way."

"Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?"

"I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door."

"As soon as there was two there was pride"

"And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it."

"As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else."

"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity."

"Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book"

"There is a hook in every benefit that sticks in his jaws that takes the benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will"

"No man ever saw God and lived. And yet, I shall not live till I see God; and when I have seen him, I shall never die."

"Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world."

"As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else"

"At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole."

"I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield itself upon honest and lawful terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind."

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."

"More than kisses, letters mingle souls."

"Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right."

"Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail."

"Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art."

"Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name."

"No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

"I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid"

"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love."

"I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry."

"My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be."

"I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die."

"I'm a hands-on mum and I'm lucky to be able to be that. I can remember the things my mum used to do with me and that time together is so important."

"Humour has always been a self-defence mechanism for me."

"I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life."

"I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos."

"I'm so adamant that being a really good parent does not mean you have to be there 24/7. I find that I'm never not thinking about where they are, but instead of it stressing me out, it comforts me to know that I'm completely aware of their schedule, and they're with someone I trust."

"I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves."

"I love getting baths and going to the Korean spas and getting pummeled and scrubbed, and its so hot in the sauna you can't even stand it. I have to do things in a pretty extreme way to calm down. So a Swedish massage is not going to do it! I need to know that they're in there with their thumbs and moving stuff around."

"My husband perpetually makes fun of me about my creams and my jars and potions and lotions, but its simpler than anyone makes it: clean, tone, keep yourself moisturized. The rest is internal: Protect yourself from the sun and drink water."

"Love can produce the children, but it has nothing to do with the raising of the children. I grew up thinking, 'Oh, that's it. All I have to do is fall in love.' You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together; they challenge you."

"I think once you have children, you just don't have the same kind of freedom to pick up and go. But then, I sort of think, how often did I really do it? How spontaneous was I really? Part of what I think I miss is this fantasy of my wild days, but they never existed!"

"The truth is, I like my body more when it's thinner. I have a range of jeans, and I'm happier in the smaller ones. But I don't have the same drive to get into those jeans. I'm not going to change my day to get there, whereas I used to."

"I was somehow able to block it out and pull myself together for the rest of the program. But it just wasn't my night."

"Watching the Chinese pairs, I said, 'Wow – that's real strength."

"I've been training very hard and very well, ... I've been nailing 99 percent of what I do in practice. That gave me the confidence to do this. I expected to skate well."

"It is a little empty without her here but I have my own things to worry about."

"My big weaknesses (in the past) have been a lack of preparation, a lack of knowledge and perhaps not enough confidence and afraid of mistakes. I need to stop trying to be perfect and just worry about becoming better."

"I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous."

"It's bittersweet. I tried hard, I have no regrets. For that performance, silver is generous."

"My mom and her parents had to leave because her brother had left a couple of years before and the government was really upset. They took away both my grandparents' jobs, so they couldn't make a living. They had to sell all their things. They weren't allowed to take more than $500 out of the country."