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- If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

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

- "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 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..

- “Last week, Lily was talking about a friend whose parents are divorced: ‘Oh it’s so sad!’ And I said ‘Do you never feel like you’re from divorced parents? Because you are, even though Michael and I weren’t technically married.’ And she goes, ‘No! Divorced parents wait in the car outside and everyone is mean to each other, and it’s not like that with us.” - Quote from Self Magazine

- “It’s kind of funny; ‘No, not you, the other one!’ Michael had a huge beard recently and I decided it would be fun if Lily got to shave it off. So we got Len’s clippers and shaved Michael. I’m sure that’s why Lily doesn’t feel like she has split parents. Your stepfather helping to shave your biological father isn’t something that necessarily happens in every household.” - Talking about Lily having 2 dads.

- "She said she’d figured it out, because I said that this gift was from Santa and she saw me in a magazine coming out of Target with it. So that kind of tipped it off. I said, ‘You’re going to look really stupid in front of all your friends, because you’re saying there’s no Santa, and everyone’s going to laugh at you. How about when he comes, I’ll have him yell at you and wake you up in the middle of the night, and he’ll be a big bearded fat old man?’ And she was like, ‘It’s okay, it’s alright. I believe, I believe in Santa." - Talking about Lily see Kate coming out of Target in a magazine with her Xmas present.

- "I didn’t realize though that [the dollar store] is a lie, Because they add tax."

- "She wants a cell phone, but I don’t know what she wants one for. She’s not getting one. What do you want a cell phone for, when you are 9 years old? No, I think she’ll have a nice wholesome wooden toy from Target…I said to her, ‘I was in college and I didn’t have a cell phone’ and she said, ‘But they weren’t invented then." - On what Lily wants for Xmas.

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