I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

If we lose sight of pleasures and luxuries that intoxicate the senses in the most sensuous and beautiful and simplest of ways, then we've lost a lot.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

I love British female directors lately.

If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered.

I play piano every day.

I love acting, but it's all just a bonus.