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!

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 long for the countryside. That's where I get my calm and tranquillity - from being able to come and find a spot of green.

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.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.

Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]

If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.

Thank God for Redbull and fake eyelashes.

There is still nothing in life as constant and as changing at the same time as an afternoon at a ballpark.

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.