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

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

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.

The chase of the whirlwind is vanity.

Life is in a constant state of change and by evolving in the present with change - Matthew Donnelly

Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?

Love is the greatest divine force.

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.

My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

I like to be in a different place when I make a movie so that I can't really focus on anything else, and that is your world.

We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals.