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.

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!

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!

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

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've noticed that the more I open up, the more I learn.

Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

It's amazing to know that 5 years ago I was writing songs in a basement in the ghetto and now I'm writing for Michael Jackson. I'd be a fool not to say it's a dream come true.

It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it.