The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters, and then you have the play. I was just always struck by that - that, of course, good drama is about conflict.

People need revelation, and then they need resolution.

Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

There is nothing more important than a good, safe, secure home.

Clark Gregg is so cool. He's a pretty cool cat. People are drawn to him.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.