I cheated at the Model United Nations when I was 13 and had to get up and apologise in front of the whole conference.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

We live in a society where children are expected to become adults overnight.

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

She was the storm, she was the lightning...

I was supposed to be powerless, and as a result they failed to see that I possessed claws.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

I'm starting with the man in the mirror

Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

It's going to be good to be on his side for a change. I'll save a lot of energy since I don't have to concentrate on whacking him. I'm pretty excited about that.

I took Jujitsu for four years, which has no striking. My dad had me in Taekwondo when I was a kid, but I didn't retain much of that.

I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.