Quotes

I love the Bronze Age - the age of the Trojan Wars and Helen of Troy. Contrary to what people think, Troy was a very sophisticated society and they used ostrich eggs - which have surprisingly tough shells - to store perfumed oils.

Cricket's in the blood - my dad loves it and my brother Simon played for Middlesex before becoming a radio and TV cricket commentator.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

Sex is a part of love. You shouldn't go around doing it unless you are in love.

I love to swim in the nude and roam around the house in the nude. You're just as free as a bird!

I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs.

My two great loves are music and horses.

I love the Scissor Sisters.

When I was in New York for 'White's Lies,' I saw 'American Idiot' and 'Hair.' I loved both of those.

'Preacher' really appeals to my iconoclastic nature because I'm a student of comparative world religions since my early 20s, so I love shows that really challenge what you think about all these things. I think it's genius. I was so excited there was a role I could play on it.

I knew that life itself was this journey, and I've always seen it as a kind of school in that we're meant to have fun, and we're meant to grow, and we're meant to evolve and learn to be better humans and how to love each other better and how to love ourselves and become a part of a community of love on this planet.

Yves Saint Laurent didn't have friends. He loved nobody. He was intimate with nobody.

Your home is your sanctuary. You need to make it a place you love to be in.

I'd love to see a woman host the Oscars.

I would love to do a musical. Put that in the universe! A rom-com musical!

I would love to play, perhaps not exactly Mimi in 'Rent,' but someone like her. Perhaps not on Broadway, but I think I feel like a musical is in my future. I sing, although I'm not Whitney Houston up in here. I'm a little bit shy about my singing, but I did it in school at Juilliard.

Genre is great and I love sci-fi.

I don't love horror, I respect it as a genre.

'GLOW' is the first time I feel like I've been able to have a theatrical experience on the small screen: to really be able to marry the two. And I love it.

Both of my parents are actors, so I grew up backstage with them. I would see some of their shows 30, 40, 50 times. I would have it all memorized. I loved it.

I went to theater school where there is a lot of holding each other's faces and crying, and a lot of kid gloves.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

A lot of artists fell in love with me over the years.