People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

I'm a tomboy. I ride motorcycles, I play polo. I was on a paintball team when I was younger. Endlessly.

The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

I love playing females that are put into these pressure-cooker situations, but they're real. I didn't want to be this kind of Lara Croft superwoman.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.

Her tears were as much anger and frustration as sadness.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.