Initially I started in theatre as a Shakespearean actress before film and television. I've always been an artistic child growing up and I knew I wanted to act for as long as I can remember.

When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her.

Being a mom myself and it being a huge and important part of who I am, made it easier for me to play the role of a strong, fierce, giving mom...

It is the ordinariness of us that is the same in all of us.

The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

You can't play history and you can't play historical characters. You just have to reduce it to the ordinary.

I am so proud of Amelia Boynton. I can burst with pride.

My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Even if you've been involved in a World Cup, the Olympics is huge. Only the Games has the power to change communities.

I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.

It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.

It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.