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

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

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

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.

I’ve tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.

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

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

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

When I look for roles, I am looking for incredibly powerful women.

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

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

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.

You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works.

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

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

I got a really good insight into the world of wrestling.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

It’s kind of a hybrid, half movie, half play, presented in a proscenium fashion – the camera’s on one side of the line, the set on the other, the audience sitting behind the cameras.

Lynching is color line murder.

When I go to the line I’m thinking ‘All net.’ When I don’t think that, I’m likely to miss.

I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don’t know about my wrists is my wrists don’t go all the way back.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.