Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

I love '30 Rock.' Absolutely love it. It's a game-changing show.

Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

A passion for any novel, and any character, can crystallise your ideas when you really need to be as open as possible as a performer.

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

I don't really want to do things that I feel like are going to send out a message that I don't really want to sign up for.

I think it is kind of important to direct someone so the character is appealing, but, as an actress, I find it frustrating because I think, "Why do I have to be more likable than a man would have to be saying the same line?"