"Brits are far more intelligent and civilised than Americans. I love the fact that you can hail a taxi and just pick up your pram and put in the back of the cab without having to collapse it. I love the parks and places I go for dinner and my friends."

"What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it."

"In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things."

"When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat."

"The only thing I would unequivocally say is that I have never had any interest in romantic comedy I just couldn't do it. I think I'd be terrible."

"Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't."

"Sometimes I feel like there are people just waiting for me to fall. The funny thing is, I can't give them anything. I have just never been a partier, even in school."

"Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is."