And doing a film in that period, and having to really celebrate what they wore back then, how they sat and how they spoke. You know, what the etiquette was back then for a lady. All of those things are like putting on a wig and transforming yourself, which I love.

I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live."

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.

I guess because I pay so much attention to the physical part of the character, I don't look upon it as like Charlize Theron up there. I don't think of them as like Charlize Theron films.

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.