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" It's so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you're working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you're going into a well-run ship already. Then it's just a matter of creating these new characters. "

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" I think most big stars do have just a certain amount of mystery; you don't know everything. "

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" Alison Carr on 'Homeland.' She was such great character to play, so clever and full of surprises. I was sad to see her go. "

" That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that. "

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" I have been really lucky to play roles younger than myself for most of my career. "

" If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think. "

" Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable. "

" My parents split up when I was young, and they are still good friends. I think it's often projected that these things have to be so acrimonious. It's so often not the case. "

" That is definitely something that I feel more comfortable with now. When I did 'Lord of the Rings,' it was something I wasn't quite prepared for, I didn't know how to deal with that sort of attention, and I kind of shied away from that, but I'm better at dealing with that now - a lot better. "

" I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with. "

" Every director is completely different. "

" There are so many successful women working in intelligence, but it's still seen as a male-dominated world. "

" Yes, I like doing TV. I like the idea of going to work with the same people. "

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" I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television. "

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" Acting is a freelance career... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. "

" Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time. "

" England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages! "

" I'd always had a big thing for the '60s. "

" It is hard sometimes to see how other actors are working when you are working with them. "

" The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected. "

" I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did. "

" In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters. "

" Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does. "

" It's a career that's enticing because you go on stage, for example, and people clap. You get that affirmation, but you can't go into acting for that because it's really your own self-belief that's going to get you through. "

" I love buildings that aren't purpose-built. "

" I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women. "

" The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and laugh and discover things about yourself and other people - and the energy level is great. "

" I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother. "