I love playing females that are put into these pressure-cooker situations, but they're real. I didn't want to be this kind of Lara Croft superwoman.

People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

I'm a tomboy. I ride motorcycles, I play polo. I was on a paintball team when I was younger. Endlessly.

The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

The bond of husband to his wife is divine.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

You cannot miss what you have never had.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.

Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.

Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.