Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.

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 can't remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn't eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.

'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.

I think you're always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, 'All right, at least I know that now!'

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.

What I've noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you're representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.

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.

'The Falling' was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn't think anything would come of it.

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

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.'

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.

It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.

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.

The women I'm attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.

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.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.

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.

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.

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.

If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He's an amazing man. I loved working with him.

You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.

I think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn't something that I grew up watching.

Why aren't there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?

If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing.

Feisty women are my calling!

I love all of Kate Winslet's characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they've done, that would be awesome.

There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?'

I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it's so hard - you're competing against your friends, and you're working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they're thinking.

Throughout my life, I've been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.

I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I'm up for it.

Girls have that wonderful thing where they try to throw each other off, not wanting to appear too eager.

I've been told to be skinny before - it's already happened, but it's up to you to either listen or say no. I'm not listening.

For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.

I used to reenact 'Titanic' all the time.

The fact that I've been nominated for a BAFTA is insane.

I think everyone's always interested in playing a spy, right? That's something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it's just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.

Someone asked if I wanted to be the first female Bond, and I was saying that I don't think we necessarily need that whole conversation.

Do we need to have a female Bond? Couldn't we just make something new?

As an actor, it's very interesting to make the audience love you while you are doing horrendous things.