We're all born into this world. Some are placed gently, others thrust into it, and still others abandoned.
— Trudie Styler
I always seem to have a good time when I'm interviewed. I really enjoy the whole process of meeting another person and having that exchange, but you know, if I'd read all my press collectively, I know I'd just say, 'Well, I don't think I'll ever be interviewed again, thanks very much!'
It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.
I was in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' and I like my bad boy movie movies.
In life, you see younger men and older women, and the majority of marriages don't have such a huge age gap as we're used to seeing in films.
I think David Cameron is really not very passionate about the environment. He said all the right things. I don't think he's come through with anything that's tangible.
He's known as Sting. I have my own personal name for him, but that shall remain a personal name.
I have great people who help me be on time, but I'm not an on-time person, and I'm very chaotic in my thoughts.
I'm very emotional about my animals.
I took up yoga when I was trying to get my figure back after having my third child, Coco.
I've had a few ghostly encounters.
I'm largely health-conscious and work out during the week, but I don't punish myself at the weekends.
I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.
As a producer, I'm quite nurturing, I like working with inexperienced, unseasoned directors.
We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being produced and directed by women.
I'd like to see more female heads of studios because what's also being crucially lost is the female perspective: 50% of the population are not having their stories told.
Our body is the only one we've been given, so we need to maintain it; we need to give it the best nutrition.
It's a very ancient culture, British culture. You can't be seen to be too wealthy, and you certainly can't be seen to be giving away any of your wealth either because that's sort of vulgar, too. It's funny, that, because in New York, if you are wealthy, you have to be philanthropic to be successful.
I like producing, but I don't love it. I love acting. I got into producing because I had a bad time in 1989 when no work was coming in.
I got called Scarface at school.
The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.
Why was I so single-minded about acting? Acting wasn't in the family; no one went to the theatre in my street. It wasn't encouraged in my school.
We're a busy family. We like challenges, and we like to be fully engaged with life. I've done that as long as I've been with Sting.
The core is the most important muscle group in your body. If your core is not strong, the rest of your body is weakened, too.
I'd never thought of directing as an option for me. I don't know why, because I'm incredibly bossy. I was surprised how collaborative it is. As the producer, you have to get the money and schedule on time, and that's not what I do best.
Seeing our kids as grown up and taking their places in the world is just fantastic.
Sting is much better at switching off than I am. He can concentrate and meditate whatever might be going on in the room and is far more disciplined.
I'm a bit of a vegetable freak, so we'll often have four or five different varieties on the table.
I like green juices in the morning, made from things such as kale, and cucumber and peppers; then in the afternoon, when the blood sugar goes down, I'll make a carrot, apple, and ginger juice.
There'll be years of teething problems searching for alternatives to oil, but they have to be embraced with passion because our oil is finite, and we're running out. Fact.
Your big movie stars who've been in blockbusters generating a lot of dollars are looking for the meatier, substantive roles that they think will make the awards season.
Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.
I have a huge belief in the importance of bees, not just for their honey, which is a healing and delicious food, but the necessity of bee colonies that are vital to the health of the planet.
We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.
I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.
If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!
I've had chronically bad stomach aches since I was a child.
My daughter Mickey is an actress, and I tell her women need to make their own films; they should always be looking for stories to develop themselves and go to acting class - not that she needs much prompting in that!
I didn't really have many friends as a child.
I've never really had a sense that I am just Mrs. Sting. Indeed, I am Mrs. Sting and very proud and very happy that I am still Mrs. Sting, as opposed to Mrs. ex-Sting. But I'm a very busy person, so I've always done things and got on with my life.
Pilates has been the perfect solution to maintaining strength and vitality in my life.
In all the stuff I do, I really like it most when I'm being creative and collaborative, working with people who have my kind of energy around me.
Yoga is immediately rewarding, whatever your level, because it's not about being able to attain the perfect lotus position. Each day, there is an improvement on the day before. It's not competitive; it's not a race. With yoga, the journey is the destination.
Yoga is the best holistic workout and body toner there is. It sorts out a chaotic mind and calms the body - it is how I de-stress - or stop myself getting stressed in the first place.
I was brought up on a council estate in the countryside near Stoke Prior in Worcestershire, but I adored visiting the farm where my father worked.
We should be looking at the bigger picture. It's all very well going around driving our Priuses, but we have to look to our governments to make us less reliant on oil.
I'm lucky enough to have some celebrity light around me. I can go on a platform and say what I think to represent these voices that can't be heard.
There's still this idea that women are over by the time they are 40, so that they can't play the love interest opposite a 50-year-old man. George Clooney is 52, but he's always on the arm of a thirt-something actress. He gets Vera Farmiga. You don't get a 50-year-old woman on the arm of a 30-year-old guy.
We need to be creating products that incentivise women to come to the movies more.
I think having a good yoga practice and a spiritual practice is a recipe for living well and, hopefully, living longer.
