“We tend to kind of write women out of history.”

We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

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

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

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.

I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.

My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.

My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.

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.

When you’re given a platform, and you’re allowed to perform, and someone’s there to heighten you as opposed to dampen you, that’s a nice feeling.

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.

I found out I got ‘The Little Drummer Girl’ and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn’t expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It’s been an overwhelming experience.

And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.

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

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

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.

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

My first album didn’t come out until I was 26.

We read books to find out who we are.

You know I was a shy guy and people didn’t know that and still don’t know it today. I’m sure basketball brought my shyness out because of the fact that you have to do interviews, and that people are always talking to you in terms of the fans and everything.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.

Things will work out – maybe just not the way you plan

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.