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

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

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

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.

Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.

Did he die well?" No, I thought. Nobody did. They just died.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television.

Sometimes, when I've been staring too hard, I've noticed that I could see the circumference of my own eye.

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

Those who believe in the importance of serving others should lead the way by fighting against the temptation we all have, and maybe especially as we age, to close in upon ourselves.

One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.

I wanted to do a set of love songs for Valentine's Day so I went through my old material. I found myself scraping around the edges of good taste.

Now I will do nothing but listen to accrue what I hear into this song. To let sounds contribute toward it. I hear the sound I love. The sound of the human voice. I hear all sounds running together.