I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.

I love acting with very little dialogue. As long as it's supported. I mean, in terms of cinema, you can have a great monologue, but if you're not supported by the images ... You can be feeling things and then you see it back, and you're like, "None of that came across." Or the angle of my face gives it a completely different interpretation than what I was trying to communicate.

You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.

Now I can wear high heels again.

I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.

Refuse to let your circumstances make you bitter. Do what you must to make them better.

I love that ["Big Little Lies"] is about women coming together and making something happen very quickly, with friendship being the core of it.