Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?
Rachel Weisz
The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
I don't know anything about science.
I always do my interviews face to face.
When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.
I want to play interesting women.
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
I love to take baths.
I'll say anything to live.
I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.
I'm too disorganized.
Oh yah, I'm definitely an old rocker.
I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
L.A. makes you feel ugly.
You have your real life and then you have your work.
I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.
That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as possible so he told Keanu, in front of me, don't go easy on her. So it was scary.
I am definitely a worrier.
People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on.
Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.
In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.
I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?
I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.
For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.
I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
I find Hollywood really toxic.
As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've never been afraid of hurting myself or a little physical discomfort.
I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.
If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like that could be intimidating to men and women, really. It's so, look at me. Do you know what I mean? But I love women.
If I'm just in dungarees, I don't think I would intimidate anyone.
In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
You have to be quite stupid to act.
