I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.

Id never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

It's nice to be given a role where you can really find the strength from within, as a woman, and to be heard.

Being around the energy of new people is wonderful. It only lifts my performance and makes it better.

Ive predominantly done comedy over the years.

Its such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

Im going to go traveling through Europe and see parts of the world I havent seen. Ive spent so much time in America that I want to check out the rest of the world.

When you put on your thinking cap make sure it’s clean.

He rolled his neck, as if to relieve the stress of his shoulders. "Your body is encased in a strong spell. It will not open up to me, " he said in frustration. "Who guards you?

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

How can you know what you're capable of if you don't embrace the unkown?

Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country.

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.