Quotes by Trudie Styler

Ashtanga yoga is a well known practice for keeping yourself fit and healthy. Yoga is good for my body.

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

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.

He's known as Sting. I have my own personal name for him, but that shall remain a personal name.

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

My first trip to Italy's Tuscany region was in 1990 when my husband, Sting, recorded an album there.

Sting and I need to think what our relationship is to England in the long term.

I feel at home wherever Sting is -- he's my home.

I've got to like myself, I think, through my relationship with Sting, who pours love over me.

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.

I enjoy the riches of life.

I'm largely health-conscious and work out during the week, but I don't punish myself at the weekends.

The Trudie Styler that is spoken of is extremely privileged in life and feels that privilege.

I was operated on facially so much when I was young, and I had massive amounts of stitches.

Our body is the only one we've been given, so we need to maintain it; we need to give it the best nutrition.

I wouldn't deliberately go and buy something that one would categorise as an extravagant thing.

Pilates has been the perfect solution to maintaining strength and vitality in my life.

Becoming an actor let me escape the me that I had in my heart, which was I'm a loser.

It's interesting, the acting thing. I think it must be a deep sense of insecurity that made me want to explore other characters.

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

I love women; I have women friends, but I'm definitely a heterosexual.

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

When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind.

I don't want to criticise my country, but there are times I feel Sting and myself have been treated unkindly.

We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.

When I first met Clint Eastwood, I bobbed him a curtsy. I still cringe about that to this day.

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.

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.

I'm good at the broad strokes but hopeless at the details.

I don't have a musical bone in my body.

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.

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

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!

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

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.

Every teenager feels like a freak. It's part of being a teenager, part of the individuation from child to adult -- those teenage years are who am I? What am I? Where am I going?

I nearly drowned in the Xingu River in Brazil some years ago. When I was given my life back, I decided I wanted to make some changes, so I left acting to concentrate on producing films. I wanted to be in control of my own life.

Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.

I've had a few ghostly encounters.

I like juices and antioxidants. I'm a health nut.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm not an unkind person, but by the same token, I'm not a people-pleaser.

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.

Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

I gave birth to our daughter Coco in Pisa, and it was a wonderful time in all our lives.

It's important to have frank discussions about what the other wants. To be in a relationship that is like a little lifetime, that's a challenge.

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'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.

My life is extravagant.

I've had chronically bad stomach aches since I was a child.

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.

Rock stars' wives have never been given an easy time. They weren't nice about Linda McCartney till she died.

I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.

As a producer, I'm quite nurturing, I like working with inexperienced, unseasoned directors.

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.

I get a lot of mud slung at me, and yes, I do take planes, but I feel that's my life. My life is to travel and also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of an irresponsible oil company.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

I think having a good yoga practice and a spiritual practice is a recipe for living well and, hopefully, living longer.

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.

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.

Tuscany is so full of history and beauty -- you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.

I was not a very... um... not a very popular girl. I think a lot of it was, you know, no boo-hoo about it -- but I looked pretty strange for the first few years of my life.

The scars on the face have always given me a sense that I'm not a very attractive person. I'm always unsure of myself, of my facial self.

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 was in 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,' and I like my bad boy movie movies.

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

Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or 'mind traffic' that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness.

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 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.