People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.

My family is pretty funny. My mother is British, so she's got a very dry sense of humor. That's where I got that from.

I changed the face of comedy. I used to be funny.

I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

I feel American comedy is a little too light. World cinema, and Latin cinema, is much more comfortable with darker emotions.