I can’t stop traffic on Fifth Avenue, not unless I walk in front of an oncoming cab.

I want to be better at staying connected.

You can perfect genius because genius is not perfection. On his level and his practice and his methodology, it's almost inhuman. So, that's been a fantastic arc to play, and boy does it go somewhere in this series.

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

I have an appetite for the normal in my life, as well as the abnormal.