Born on February 11th

"I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short."

"I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up."

"All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks."

"I've always had a tomboy look."

"Hey, once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl. It will always be a big deal - it's an exclusive club."

"I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist."

"I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs."

"I think it just takes one little snowflake to start a snowball to go down the hill. My contribution and, say, Kendrick Lamar's and some chosen others' start the snowball. That's all I can hope for. I don't know if I'm comfortable being quote-unquote a leader."

"The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity."

"Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it."

"I'm kinda a first take dude. The first time, cut that mic on, and the spirit is there, and what comes on the mic - I mean, even if I'm mumbling, I like to keep a lot of that initial thing that comes out. Cause that's the spirit."

"I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world."

"The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful."

"I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?"

"I love - you know, I'm a big fan of Prince and Curtis Mayfield and Smoky Robinson. It's something to be said about a man who can be very masculine but still display that sensitive side, and that falsetto does it perfectly."

"I grew up teaching parts to choirs, and I love a whole group of voices singing as one."

"A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open."

"I've always been a narcissist."

"Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part."

"Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist."

"I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent."

"In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'"

"I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience."

"I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me."

"I'm not an American, but I have this weird connection to America in different ways through my dad living here for five years, my godfather being an American who I'm very close to."

"The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus."

"Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end."

"You just have to take control of your own performance."

"There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time."

"My background was fairly conservative, and I think there's a strong notion of duty in a background like that, and I don't think that's always helpful."