Trudie Styler

“We're all born into this world. Some are placed gently, others thrust into it, and still others abandoned.”

“I have such a fortunate life that of course I will have my detractors. I have a very endowed life.”

“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 had operations up until I was 18, then revision on my scars to put back my eyebrows. So I've had a lot of what is called plastic surgery. And I have huge, huge respect for what that is.”

“My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.”

“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 don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.”

“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.”

“The standing yoga routines work all the main muscles of the body and improve stamina while increasing your metabolic rate, and there is a specific Yoga Abs workout to build all-important core strength to improve posture and trim the waistline.”

“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.”

“At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down.”

“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.”

“I'm a bit of a vegetable freak, so we'll often have four or five different varieties on the table.”

“In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.”

“The film industry is driven by male narrative. Heads of studios are often men, teeming with male executives everywhere you look, and so the narratives we have the screenwriters usually for male leads. Women tend to be second string: the girlfriend of, the secretary who becomes.”

“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.”

“There are some things I feel the need to pussyfoot around that I would like to... give vent to. But I realise the press isn't the place to do that.”

“Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.”

“Telling women's stories is really important.”

“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.”