"I think anything that has to do with sexuality makes people very interested."

"I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video."

"I have been involved in some films other actresses would not have done."

"It has been very erotic and provocative for people to wonder about my feelings for women."

"Marriage is obsolete and a trap."

"People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life."

"I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty."

"It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone."

"I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film."

"I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless."

"I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring."

"I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double."

"Bjork is a very original, interesting person. I like her very much."

"I like all these little animals that run and eat and hide all the time. I like their faces, They seem to be scared and curious at the same time."

"You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today."

"I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else."

"I've always been able to decide what was more important at different points in my life, but I never gave up personal things to work, never."

"I didn't devote my life to acting. I give a lot to my work, but my life has always been more important."

"I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts."

"I can be very critical on myself and on other people; I can be very demanding."

"When I first see the dailies, I look only at myself, but then you start to see the scene."

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

"I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. Iff I didn't like that, I'd do something else."

"People expect a lot more from someone they think looks interesting. It's a burden."

"I did important films when I was very young."

"I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working."

"Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen."

"I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that."

"I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine."

"I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage."

"I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you."

"I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out."

"We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out."

"If I'm going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven't played before, with great people. It had better be fun."

"I'm quite a broad girl, not at all delicate. I watch what I eat to stay in shape, but I'm against diets. I eat when I'm hungry, three meals a day."

"I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I'm not going to lie to you, I've got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it's like a pageant."

"I don't deny myself food. I'm no saint. I love butter and cream, but I also eat lots of grains and fruits."

"I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted."

"I don't have a trainer. Crazy, right? But I don't need anyone to motivate me. I love exercise, even things like the elliptical and stretching."

"I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool."

"When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone."

"I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business."

"I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales."

"It's true, I don't like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes."

"I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules."

"I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair."

"I love to eat an apple after a meal, just to cleanse my teeth - they always look polished afterwards."

"I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous."

"I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York."