I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.

You just do the roles that you want to do and that you're lucky enough to get cast in, and then eventually you have that career. I feel like you can't control it; it just happens organically.

I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.

It's a bit of a dilemma, being an actor. I know that. But otherwise, I'm a relatively private person. I feel like when you get into this industry, it's so important to have your boundaries.

Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness.

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.