I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

I feel that art deals with issues way before any political organisation.

I wanted to be a woman, first. And then singer. And then actress. For me, to me it's not as important what you do so much as who you are.

Actors incorporate certain emotions from our own lives in order to create characters, and emotions come from experience.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

If everybody has to take biology and chemistry, they can take computer science. Computer science is a more useful skill right now than a lot of other things that people are learning at school.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.