I wanted to go to drama school, but when I got the part in 'Falling,' I got an agent, so it seemed a good idea to work. I always did a lot of singing and dancing, so I am glad it worked out that way. I would like to study stage acting at some point, though.

The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim. Amazing, obviously. She's been my idol since I re-enacted 'Titanic' and fell in love with Leo. And it's a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.

If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.

If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move. And I'm a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.

I'm a bit of a gypsy. I live everywhere; I live out of a bag.

What's important is to listen before you react.

What we don't realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache. You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that's not how Hollywood works.

'The Silence of the Lambs' is my favourite book, favourite film.

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

My dad still collects newspaper clippings about me.

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

I think there's always some good reason to try and modernize most period things, because at the end of the day, they may have, I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.

I found out I got 'The Little Drummer Girl' and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn't expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It's been an overwhelming experience.

My characters do have some fantastic taste in men.

I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

In 'Fighting With My Family,' there's a scene where I have to wrestle; I have to do the famous fight between Paige and AJ Lee. We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

Playing Paige, I felt I had to train to wrestle.

For me, it's always been so obvious that the less we can edit our lives and more we show how normal we all are, the better.

Everybody's story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it's not easy... you have to offer yourself; you can't expect someone to get you.

I know that my way of tackling a character is very different.

In order for us to appreciate this world, we have to be a bit more honest, and I hope I do that.

Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people.

There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.

I can't remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn't eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.

'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.

I think you're always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, 'All right, at least I know that now!'

I don't think I'm going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I'm not going to be an international sex symbol.

What I've noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you're representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.

There's a reason why there's a problem with bodies, and it's because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.

'The Falling' was a big, flashy, bizarre experience. I kept on saying at the time it was a fluke because I did the audition, and I didn't think anything would come of it.

I have been enormously lucky. My first role was in a great film by a woman director.

I think it's so interesting which ways your career can go. I would have been a completely different actor doing a completely different story, and I would have missed 'Lady Macbeth.'

I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.

I remember being about six years old, for the first day of school, and sitting in the back of a Chrysler, pretending to cry while listening to Tracy Chapman.

It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.

During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson - two people I've looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.

The women I'm attracted to playing I hope will mean something to someone.

I love watching faces as they grow up. It's the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women. I like a face that hasn't been tampered with.

I am learning on every job I do. There is something new every time.

I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue - but so happy.

The one thing that I always try and take with me, if there's, like, a remake, or you're doing something again, is that every generation has a new story to tell.

Something that I've always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves. That's something I've always appreciated watching actors that I've looked up to, is when they look like you and me, or they have a funny elbow, or they have, you know, a hairy face.

The whole wrestling art, it's a whole form, is performance, and that's what makes it so exciting to do.

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

I grew up in a very loud family where you had to fight to get your voice heard, in a good way.

If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He's an amazing man. I loved working with him.