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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.

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

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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!'

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

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

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.

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

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

Everybody's story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it's not easy... you have to offer yourself; you can't expect someone to get you.

For me, it's always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.