I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'

I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work.

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

When you're amongst people doing well it's so gratifying and spurs you to just keep investing in your job.

I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

Extraordinary moments often involve a sense of connection, as well as communication, with something that we intuitively know goes well beyond this plane of reality.

Time in the turning-over of days works change for better or worse.

There was a time when everyone thought that Earth was flat. Did this unanimous consensus make any difference to the shape of Earth?

I want to get out there. I want to show myself.

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel.

It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.