Top 50 Trudie Styler Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

As a late teenager, I had some puppy fat on me, and I noticed that I could put on weight. I have always been very disciplined because my mother was very beautiful, a very pretty woman, but she was immobilised by obesity. At her biggest, she was about 17 stone. And she was always on some sort of fad diet.

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

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.

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.

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!’

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 don’t feel I want to complain about anything that’s said about me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The great thing about acting is you don’t have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.

We need to be creating products that incentivise women to come to the movies more.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 took up yoga when I was trying to get my figure back after having my third child, Coco.

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

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.

I think I became an actress because I didn’t know who I was, and I certainly didn’t like the person I saw when I looked in the mirror.

I didn’t really have many friends as a child.

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

I enjoy the riches of life.

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

I hope when people see that female-led production companies are working, there will be more of us.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Seeing our kids as grown up and taking their places in the world is just fantastic.

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