What's amazing about the show ["Girls"] - the first (season) is about the girls and then the second (season) is about the boys as well. There's something so human about it.

I've never taken a role where I don't like a person on the page. Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

Sometimes there are changes that need to be made.

I'm keen to have balance, as much as possible. I put every ounce of myself into my work, but also it's important that I don't miss every single wedding of my best friends. I couldn't do what I do without my friends and family.

I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.