There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.

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 always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

I was very nervous about doing the Entertainment Weekly cover, because I thought, "Okay, this is the first taste, this is the first visual moment." By then I obviously knew a lot of the more iconic moments in his comic history, but still it's me. It's not a drawing, it's not an artist; it's me and I'm kinda frightened, but it seemed to go down.

I think anyone who works in medicine has superpowers.

Laughing and crying are really similar - what happens to your body. It's a very similar process in your diaphragm. Like a musician, you have to do your scales once in a while and warm up your voice.