If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that.

You look at somebody's work as an actor and you can see their emotional life being fed into it and you can kind of feel them through it.

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

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

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 aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.