• I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
• There’s always going to be pressure, and there’s always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.
• I think it’s so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed ‘Lady Macbeth.’
• Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
• The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.
• There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.
• I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.
• I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

More to come…