Samantha * Quotes

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.

I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

As a viewer myself, I tend to gravitate toward projects that have a really strong voice of a strong creator.

There's always going to be someone who hates you. There's always going to be people who love you. It's a risk in either direction.

You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness.

I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

Energy is always paramount when hosting a live show, because you need every synapse firing, so you can think fast on your feet.

Cancer had a chance to break me down, but I was determined to fight back with strength and positivity.

In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.

'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

When a task seems too daunting to even approach, break it up into little bits.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.

I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.

A lot of comedy is really DIY. You're kind of doing it yourself.

I would like to give you more of my heart,but there is nothing more I can give you. I gave you everything and you crushed it into bits.

There is a fair amount of competition, obviously, with ISIL and the terrorist networks around the world, China also posing a different kind of threat to the rules-based order.

Don't live life in the past lane.

Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.

I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

The worst thing you can do to a dictator is laugh at him.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.

If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go and that is down.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.

I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

My best friend is my husband.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

Everyone wants to look their best, everyone has dreams of wanting to look like something else. But we are who we are.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.