Throughout my life, I've been that annoying kid on every stage at school, in every talent contest.

I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it's so hard - you're competing against your friends, and you're working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they're thinking.

There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?'

I love all of Kate Winslet's characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they've done, that would be awesome.

Feisty women are my calling!

If people are noticing the hard work I'm doing, then that's a wonderful thing.

Why aren't there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?

I can definitely hold my hands up and say wrestling wasn't something that I grew up watching.

I like a role where some of the character's motivations are confusing or at least interesting.

As beautiful as cinema is, it's a massive part of the problem of why we look at ourselves in the way we do.

I don't want to feel like I have to change myself or my image.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

I think it's good to not edit your life too much, or you give people different standards.

You are hugely responsible for people following you. You need to work out why you are posting, what the message is, and what you are doing to these people.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.