I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.

Not to be purple, but I've never been a 'bad boy' kind of girl. I like manners.

I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.

What's normal to you is normal to you.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

There is so much wonderful stuff and so many amazing people in this world.

People tend to comment on my feet a lot. In daily life.

I don't t drink coffee, but I'm a tea addict.

You're able to do more when you're not clouded with wasted anxiety.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.

I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.

Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.

Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

To Meath of the pastures, From wet hills by the sea, Through Leitrim and Longford, Go my cattle and me.

Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.

No more slave States; no slave Territories.