Sometimes I feel like the kid left out - the weirdo with the silver hair that no one likes to talk to.

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

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!

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.

The only thing worse than not getting there is not starting the journey because you are still thinking about how to start it. Just start.

To make your life beautiful, impregnate your thoughts with beauty.

How very much horrible would it be, if achieving everything was so easy! We bear life because there is struggle!

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

I'm a pretty happy camper. Look a little more like Paul Newman, maybe. Haha.

Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it.

Jesus might have said, I became man for you. If you do not become God for me, you wrong me.

SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.