“Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.”

What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache.

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

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.

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 think there’s always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have,

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.

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

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 like a face that hasn’t been tampered with.

What’s important is to listen before you react.

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

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it’s the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it’s done.

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.

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

I become a bit of a blank page in public. And that’s precisely why I like acting.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

There’s lots of sins in this life. We’re all sinners. If you don’t believe in God and you don’t believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Words lit low on kerosene pages, familiar comforts like asphyxiation.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Spill yourself onto the page with ink and a half healed heart and watch the words blossom.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.