When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

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.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

The journey of life - we all go through it: You have love, you lose love, you find new love. To have love again is a beautiful thing.

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

I want to be contributing and working with people that I like and love, and this was the perfect combination.

I love acting but I don't like all of the other stuff associated with it. The interest in celebrities, the press, the Internet, when your identity becomes mixed up in the way people are perceiving you.