Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--and there's something exquisite about that.

I think maybe even one of the reasons I became an actor was actually to hide. I mean, it sounds paradoxical because, of course, people are standing up in a public place and encouraging other people to look at them. So that's not the conventional definition of hiding.

I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that moment that you broke a limb or you burned yourself or, I think, this is a common thing that women talk about with childbirth, that the memory of the pain is hard to summon up and relive, thankfully.

I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner!

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.