Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

The dark side is when you are with family and friends, and you have paparazzi screaming at you - that's been hard to deal with.

The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If he hasn't stolen my heart from the previous hero, I know the book isn't right.

Gay marriage was a trick: it's a tool to tell people to bake cakes. Laws are based on morality, so if it's illegal for a Catholic to refuse a ceremony, you are saying that Catholicism is immoral, and that was really the goal of gay marriage - discredit Christianity.

I loved football even before I married a quarterback; it's not for every woman, but I like it.

I don't want to do romantic roles where I have to lip sync to a song. A role that explores romance on a new level would suit me.