[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

I'm a real geek. I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

But for everyone, I think, there is always a pressure to conform, and I guess as you get older you realize it's less interesting to do that. It starts with you, though, saying, 'I know what I like doing and that's what I'm going to do.

The British vice is overthinking before we speak, which is really annoying. I love the way that, in America, people are more straightforward.

I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.

I cry at the end of every episode of "Girls." I'm just so overwhelmed by the truthfulness with which [Lena Dunham] conveys human nature.