I'm more insecure than I ever let anyone know; sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'

In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly.

I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified.

I’m a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.

If I’m going to leave my family for any length of time, it had better be for a role that I haven’t played before, with great people. It had better be fun.

If my husband’s going to kiss anybody, let it be Matt Damon.

It’s true, I don’t like the whole cutoff-shorts-and-T-shirt look, but I think you can look fantastic in casual clothes.

I’m obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don’t use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that’s smaller and weighted.

When I first met Sean Connery he was as charming and wonderful as I first anticipated. I left Rome thinking: even if I don’t do this, at least I have had a day with Sean.