I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.

I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

The truth speaks for itself.

Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

If you're ever in doubt, throw a pepper in the air. If it fails to come down, you have gone mad, so don't trust in anything.

People care enough to write blogs and reviews and things, which is nice.

My husband makes fun of me, because I know I can use strong prose to jazz-hand my way through plot that isn't as interesting as I'd like it to be.

I'd love to try and get a summer and winter gold medal-that would be amazing.

Humans are the only hunters who kill when not hungry.