I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.

What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes in different ponds.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

As an actor, Hollywood would be a horrible place to go if you weren't actually invited.

I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.

On a Friday night, I like to go out because my friends, who have been working normal hours, just want to let go after a stressful week at work.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

We're three women from two different centuries, trying to save the world from oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's way above my pay grade.

The moment you think you know something inside out, is the moment you stop listening. That's when you go backwards faster than you progressed

Each of us is a unique thread, woven into the beautiful fabric, of our collective consciousness.

Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.

It's my responsibility to walk around the hotel with a big smile on my face and not worry about what's happened in the last game.

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

Don't integrate anything into your wardrobe that's going to make you feel hugely uncomfortable when you leave home. Get the comfort thing down first - baby steps.

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don't ever feel like I'm sitting around.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.