I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.
As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
As you grow up and get educated in the business, you go from, 'I want to do movies' to 'I want to work. In whatever.
I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters - that's eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
Two seemingly incompatible conceptions can each represent an aspect of the truth. . . They may serve in turn to represent the facts without ever entering into direct conflict.
Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state of 'don't know'. The over-prioritising of meaning gets in the way of just experiencing the art in a more sensual way. Judging quality purely from an intuitive emotional response needs more confidence and experience than just working it out like a crossword clue.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.