Quotes from Catherine Zeta-Jones

I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

I love clothes, and yes, we go out, but it's not like I'm walking around all day in a negligee with fluffy mules.

I get terrified the first day I'm on a film set. I get nervous walking down a red carpet. I find making speeches the most terrifying thing in the world.

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs.

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.

My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!

I do condition my hair with honey and beer. I smell like the bottom of a beer barrel for days afterwards, but it's very good for the hair.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.

Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.

Everyone knows we get paid a lot of money, so why pretend otherwise?

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 grew up in a small, strictly Catholic fishing village - the people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together.

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

I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.

I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.

I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that.

I allow myself to not feel the need to be some sort of wonder woman. You can't do everything at once and tear your hair out when you miss your baby using a potty for the first time, although my son was obviously very sad that his mum was not there on his big day.

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.

We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.

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.