“It’s amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.”

Usually the triumph of my day is, you know, everybody making it to the potty.

Don’t forget I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

I can’t wait to have kids; I just can’t wait to hold a baby in my arms.

I don’t think I realized that the cost of fame is that it’s open season on every moment of your life.

My real hair color is kind of a dark blonde. Now I just have mood hair.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you’re younger. But I haven’t abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It’s just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can’t convincingly portray at this age.

I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them.

I wouldn’t have believed it. I still barely do, truthfully. I’m so continually fortunate that I keep coming across these smart, interesting, creative people who pick me. It’s just stupendous.

You can be true to the character all you want but you’ve got to go home with yourself.

Wit is the key, I think, to anybody’s heart, because who doesn’t like to laugh?

I am very fulfilled in my home life, and what films do for me is to create an ironclad structure that, in my life as a mom, does not exist. It is a shapeless blob of happy chaos.

There are certain people who should know what you look like naked. I just don’t think your high-school algebra teacher should be one of them.

In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

You have to be smart enough not to dismiss where you came from. It may not be all we are, but it makes up for a great deal.

Part of the reason why some of the relationships I’ve had in my past worked for so long is because when you’re making movies, a huge gap of time can pass when you don’t even see the person.

We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.

The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.

They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.

I work on my technique, but when I do a video, I want people to be amazed by the speed or the power. The casual fans don’t care if your hands are up or your hands are down.

I love drums and love how they look, so we offer re-wrapping to reboot your old kit, a hardware lacquering service – the black looks amazing, and bespoke snare drums.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who’s complicated.

Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.

I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She’s an amazing musician and it’s an honour to be opening for her in London.