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

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.

The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.

The women I’m attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.

The Silence of the Lambs’ is my favourite book, favourite film.

I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in ‘Falling,’ I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work.

Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will.

I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas.

They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.

I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you’ve ever done… I am only interested in the present.

You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.

I feel great. George W.Bush is leaving. We’re leaving. It’s all perfect timing.