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

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.

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.

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

Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.

I hope to create characters that people want to watch – and they either want to be or are, or it’s something that they recognize.

If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.

Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.

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

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

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

For me, I really appreciate seeing real bodies on screen, that variation, not the same frames we saw for the majority of our upbringing, making us feel like we have to look that way.

Staging Formula One is incredibly expensive.

Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

That’s the day I realized that there was this entire life behind things, and this incredibly benevolent force that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever.

I think the Internet has developed at this incredibly rapid pace because of net neutrality, because of the free nature of it, because a YouTube can start the way YouTube started.

It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ].

Belief in oneself is incredibly infectious. It generates momentum, the collective force of which far outweighs any kernel of self-doubt that may creep in.

If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.