The more you think that you are watching a show about sex, the more you ultimately are watching a show about the challenges of just connecting with human beings and being intimate.

Americans are much more open than people in Britain.

I enjoy doing things that involve research because it's part of what I enjoy about acting.

Stories have always been the things that entertain me and make me feel happy and sad and move me and give me the experience of being able to live many lives in one lifetime. It's the best thing about being alive.

My taste in watching things runs from dramas and low-budget films to high-end fantasy/science fiction.

My own daughter is a big fan of the 'Twilight' stories, the books.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.