"I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine."

"I don't feel like a romantic lead I guess I feel more like a character actor."

"My vanity is I'm terribly romantic! But being married is lovely."

"The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'"

"Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true."

"Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside."

"My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time."

"How do you rebel in a family of rebels?"