I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of rise and fall. You know, they all, like Achilles, Icarus, you know, they all had their high points and their low points.

I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.

At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything