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

I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.

I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.

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’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.

I’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?

I think I’d been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

I wanted to look different because I felt different

The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.

We don’t know that we’ve lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence.

The album feels like a new era for me — emotionally, lyrically, sonically. It feels fresh, it feels new. It’s still me.

They feel it is… artificial and not what we want to be known for.

There’s been so much wealth built up that we really can feel spending for some time.