One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

I wake up so full of life and feeling so alive and so full of joy when I get to go to a set and tell a story. I just - I couldn't imagine not having that, and what a gift it's been in my life.

I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.

My most annoying question is "Hilary, are you ever going to play a pretty girl?"

I'm very glad that [the death penalty] hasn't existed for many years in the U.K.

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.