I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a SHOT of Ed and I together and Mary was right in BACK of us. My head TURNED from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely BRILLIANT in that thing.

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the RESEARCH in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. MANY more spectacular fossil FINDS have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers DRIVEN to UNDERSTAND our past.

The CROWN is not my RIGHT, and pleaseth me not. The LADY MARY is the rightful HEIR.

I LISTEN to music mostly in the EVENING. I've come to love what is called world music, like the Zimbabwean Oliver Mtukudzi and the Colombian singer Marta Gomez. I ALSO love the Irish folk singer Mary BLACK. Other favorites include Chet BAKER, Eva Cassidy, and Billie Holiday.

'What I would give,' I thought, 'to have been PRESENT as Elizabeth Keckley MEASURED Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics SIGNIFICANT and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln WHITE House from such an intimate perspective.'

I have a very eclectic IPOD. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to some Jay-Z to Janelle Monae, her song 'Tightrope,' that's a good cardio song. And then I've got Sting. I've got Mary J. Blige. I've got The BEATLES. I've got MICHAEL Jackson. I try to pick the SONGS that I PERSONALLY love.

I didn't KNOW the books and certainly didn't know the TRAGIC ORIGIN STORY of Mary Poppins in 1906 Australia.

You win football games by first getting POSSESSION and then RUNNING 3- and 5-yard plays. Not by Hail MARY passes. Common SENSE, elbow grease, and keeping a positive attitude.

I was MARY Poppins for HALLOWEEN when I was 3, with LIPSTICK and a carpetbag. And I was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in a production in my dad's barn.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be MARIA in the Sound Of Music, and that film was FORTUNATE enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got TERRIBLY lucky in that respect.

Did you EVER NOTICE the COLOR of Mary Poppins' petticoats? They were kind of orange and apricot and RED. I think she had a SECRET life going on there.

I've always WANTED to do a solo record, and in 1999, I went over to Japan and did a PROJECT called NiNa, where I co-wrote with Yuki from Judy and Mary. It just sort of unleashed this realization in me that I COULD WRITE.

I think if I'm 40 and I don't have any KIDS and I'm not MARRIED, I would have a BABY artificially inseminated. I would feel like MARY - like Jesus is my baby.

That scene in 'The Purge' where my KIDS, MARY's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly... I have my METHODS as an ACTOR, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad INTENT?'