David Suchet's Poirot was very charming, and, when I'm away in the U.S., those series remind me of being in Britain and being British on a Sunday night.

We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

Someone who's a great hero of mine and has become a friend is Patti Smith.

I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.

We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.

As a woman, on any film or any show, we do most of the emoting.

Shakespeare was the thing that started me off on that train, you know, and every one of his plays. There are so many different characters, and the wonderful thing about being in an all-girls school was I got to play them all, you know. So I got to play Mercutio and Oberon and Malvolio - it was great.

I really enjoy picking up the physical rhythm of somebody else, speaking with their voice. I've never done in anything in my own voice, and I can't imagine what that would be like. It would be weird, I guess.

I get scared of really simple things and not scared of big things.