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

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

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

When you know psychologically what [characters] are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.

To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.

I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.

And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.