On Relationships: “If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humor was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!”

On Her Baby Years: “I was a funny-looking baby. I had a gigantic head and was kind of chunky.”

On Her Baby Years: “I was not a child you’d use to advertise food products.”

On Going to an All Girls School: “I went to an all girl’s school with a lot of very feisty, smart, independent women who all expected to have careers—they didn’t expect to marry a very rich man. I think there’s something very healthy about girls being all in a school together. I would have been completely different if I had been around a bunch of boys.”

On her marriage to Len Wiseman and her relationship with former beau Michael Sheen: “I love my husband and my ex-boyfriend; I’ve actually picked really great men. While one of them might not have worked out in terms of ‘forever,’ I don’t regret it for a second. I’ve known these extraordinary men and I have an amazing child who’s got three great parents.”

On being an actress with a child: “Becoming an actor or director is a really great idea when you’re 17 and don’t have any children and can drop everything to go to Australia next week. But it becomes a lot harder when you have an eight-year-old and your day doesn’t end and your weekend never starts. Yet I have this insanely fantastic child. So it’s worth it.”

On working with Adam Sandler and Henry Winkler on Click: “One of the most fun experiences I had was doing Click: Adam Sandler is the nicest person in the world, ever. And I just wanted to adopt Henry Winkler and keep him in my family.”

On being a fashion icon: “I look really good in bridal gowns and underwear and the rest doesn’t fit too well. But I always feel fantastic when I’ve just washed my hair and I’ve got a big towel on top of my head.”

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn’t think they’re enslaved.

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 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”,

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.

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.

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 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 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 don’t think he liked being in a cage and wouldn’t stop masturbating and humping his bowl.” about her daughter’s pet rabbit

“It’s the only time my education has come in remotely handy.” -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her “Van Helsing” script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.

She [Lily] already has some Americanisms: she says ‘pants’ instead of trousers and ‘elevator’ instead of lift. That’s more than enough for me.”

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.

I didn’t go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.