I like hard work. I like putting the effort towards it and then being able to look at it and go, "All right, I did that."

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

I have very talented people dress me and put my makeup on, stuff like that. But I do love that look, and I think it's maybe because I grew up on that old glamour.

It took a while for me to be able to sit in a room of studios and financiers and say, "I'm not some hoity-toity actress looking for a vanity deal - I really know how to make a film!" In order to do that, you've got to break your f-cking back.

I think acting is really fully adapting - to your surroundings, to your emotions, to the people that you're working with, to being tired, to want to go home, to being lonely, to being happy. It's adapting for me, and trusting. Adapting and trusting, that's my format right there.

One thing can make many other things happen.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.