I like exploring life and its complexities.

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

Actors have to protect each other in a way. The idea of humiliating another actor or being humiliated myself is devastating.

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.

I credit literature for the reason I act because that was the door to me saying, ‘Oh! I can be somebody else. I can exist as someone else.’

I always say, when I work with younger actresses, "I'm here." Reese says it, too: "We've lived it. We know things. So if there's anything you want to know." I'm careful not to be the preacher, like, "Now, listen to me!" But I do want to be available. Even in terms of things like finances - where do you learn that, if you don't have people you can ask, "Hey, can I ask you a question?"

Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.