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

It's my job as an actor to commit to the role and not - through my own inhibitions - run away.

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.

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

I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

Sometimes your mistakes are you biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.