What are you reading right now?

What was your first job?

Have you ever met anyone famous?

If you could pick up a new skill in an instant what would it be?

Who’s someone you really admire?

Seen any good movies lately you’d recommend?

Got any favorite quotes?

Been pleasantly surprised by anything lately?

What was your favorite band 10 years ago?

What’s your earliest memory?

Been anywhere recently for the first time?

What’s your favorite family tradition?

Who had the most influence on you growing up?

What was the first thing you bought with your own money?

What’s something you want to do in the next year that you’ve never done before?

Seen anything lately that made you smile?

What’s your favorite place you’ve ever visited?

Have you had your 15 minutes of fame yet?

What’s the best advice you’ve ever heard?

How do you like your eggs?

Do you have a favorite charity you wish more people knew about?

Got any phobias you’d like to break?

Have you returned anything you’ve purchased recently? Why?

Do you collect anything?

What’s your favorite breakfast cereal?

I used to have two brown-coloured cats, who were brother and sister, called Bonzo and Bonzetta.

There is no more dangerous country in the world today than Pakistan.

I could go anywhere in the world and people would stop me in the street and talk about 'Fringe' and how much they adored it and asked questions about it.

Personally as an actress, when I work on something, that's it and then I move onto the next thing. I'm not someone who sits and watches my stuff. I like to go onto the next thing that I'm working on, and the thing that's been completed is completed.

Teaching at university isn't like teaching in an art school.

Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

Every guy should have a fantasy sports team.

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

The war in Afghanistan is too important to be reduced to a political football. We are fighting there to protect our national security. We are confronting the Taliban-led insurgency to prevent terrorists returning to that country.

I was going to go and do what I should do as a filmmaker and make slightly larger films each time, learn my craft, make mistakes and solve them.

There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

The secret to a happy, successful life of paranoia is to keep careful track of your persecutors.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Hospice means end of life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.

I'm certainly hoping that all the recommendations that we have heard will be implemented.

I have no problem putting my feet up and watching football but my mother-in-law is always doing stuff.

Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.

Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed. People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.

I have a new television show in the works, and that is all I can say right now.