All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.

Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf

Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment so they're just happy I'm in work!

I long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

Being a single girl in New York it's what you should be doing in your twenties!

I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

I need to tell you a story.'What

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

The sun provides the moon with its brightness.

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

I feel like when I stay focused on encouraging people, and giving them hope, and helping them live their everyday life, I think that's where I can have the most impact.

Even if we are all doomed to live under the state, it doesn't follow that there is, or even can be, such a thing as a good state.

From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.

What you work hardest at, you love the most.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!