The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.

I don't like changing with the wind; I like sticking to my own self.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.

In particular, for my character, Celeste [in Big Little Lies], there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because she has sort of barriers that she has to put up for protection because of things that are going on in her life. Yet she wants to be, I suppose, very presentable but neutral.

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.