In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

I want to be in 'Glee,' but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.

It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.

I'm not great at having my picture taken and I don't enjoy that side of it very much but I enjoy being with my friends and it's nice to have a reunion.

Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.

It's always harder to maintain raw enthusiasm or joy than to go into a really dark place.

I have always hated nightclubs, and don't like loud music.

Statism ends with an eye roll.

Stupid. Why do people want to pretendthat death is sleep? It isn’t. It isn’t

Even our parents seemed to agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives.

You have had your last bad meal. But, you have also heard your last honest compliment, and you have lost your last true friend.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they'd agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they'd argue about everything.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.

Eccentricity is what's sexy in people.

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

People who walk by faith don't see obstacles, they see opportunities.