Quotes About Discovery

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented.

I love to do things like sail and hike, but they don't give me the satisfaction of knowing the potential of something you've learned in the lab.

There is immense, powerful potential in life in this universe - especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common. And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me.

When I was 15, I was asked to do 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at school, and it fundamentally changed my life. It's obviously an extraordinarily diverse and potentially electrifying part. It's a big leading part, and I hadn't really played anything like that before; I was the one doing the comedy side bit.

You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there's life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies... and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.

Harry Potter was my first job.

'Harry Potter' is the first book that ever got me into reading. I had to read it in year 7, for school, and then I kept reading all of them.

When I was younger, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, which meant, for me, sitting in front of a book was really hard - until I discovered Harry Potter, and this character, this 11-year-old boy, who suddenly gets off to school for the first time, captured my imagination, and suddenly reading was fun. Reading was inspiring, and I was motivated.

I realized on my first day on set of 'Miss Potter' that there wasn't going to be anything else that could make me as happy or feel as fulfilled as acting does.

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

My continent knows more about me than I do myself.

The first breath of air of Africa - it felt like you were in another continent - you were, you were - and it was different.

I've been to all seven continents on assignment for 'SI.'

I have been to all continents of the world.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.

Taking on music that's not played very much is a contribution I can give. There's so much I feel that needs more attention.

I found out my husband can cook!