"If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great."
"I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight."
"I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman."
"We tend to kind of write women out of history."
"Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable."
"It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense."
"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."
"We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things."
"During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson - two people I've looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering."
"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.'"
"The women I'm attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone."
"Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?"
"Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people."
"I don't think I'm going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I'm not going to be an international sex symbol."
"'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film."
"I love watching faces as they grow up. It's the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women. I like a face that hasn't been tampered with."
"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 am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time."
"I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director."
"I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy."
"I know that my way of tackling a character is very different."
"I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be."
"The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell."
"In 'Fighting With My Family,' there's a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee. We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying."
"Something that I've always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves. That's something I've always appreciated watching actors that I've looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face."
