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

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 wrestled at the Staples Centre at ‘Monday Night Raw’ when I was 21 years old.

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.

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

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

I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

I don’t honestly think people know what acting is.

I have actual acting scars.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you’re always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You’re always protected.

Someone will always hate what I say. There’s always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.

The thing about acting is that it’s fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what’s given to you.

Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

Acting isn’t a side thing – you have to live and breathe it.