I've been led by my nose all my life and tried to make perfume by boiling sugar water in jam jars and stuffing them full of gardenia and rose petals when I was growing up in Swaziland.

Lena Dunham is an extraordinary woman.

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

Everything I dared dream of has come to fruition. Which is not to say that I don't grumble with the best of them, but the wobbles have been way outweighed by the wonders.

One of the things I learned growing up, a rule that I go by, is just never give up. That's one thing that I had to keep telling myself.

Trite as it sounds, follow your heart. Persevere. And if you follow your heart and persevere, it will pay off.

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

For me, it's just acting. It's pretending. The best actors are children, and children don't do research. You never see a child going, 'I'm wondering about my motivation here. How can I do this toy? How can I do this train? I don't feel train.'