I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

I did some theatre. I had some smaller roles in a couple TV shows and films. I used to think I did a lot of acting, but my 'career' started when I started Homeland.

On an average day, I have two things to read in my purse: a book and a play.

I like to make pies. Thats kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.

I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.

I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.

As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.

I do a lot of vintage, of course, but I really feel so particular about clothing. I think it stems from acting, like if I'm not wearing the proper shoes for a character I feel totally off.

I really do like working very closely with a director and developing characters.

Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

She’d left him.Without a word. Without a thought. She’d left him and now he hadfeelings.For that alone, he’d never forgive her.

We see a first generation going through adolescence knowing their every misstep, all the awkward gestures of their youth, are being frozen in a computer's memory.

I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken.

You can't dance if you got too much muck in your head.