I think love is the core emotion. Without that, and I've certainly existed without that, it's a very empty life.
I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.
I got married really fast and really young.
You live a third of your life when you dream. So you may as well live in your dreams the way you want to be living. The way you want to be.
I would rather be tough on myself than have other people be tough on me.
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.
I love lying in darkness.
I never like to tell people what they should take.
It's very, very rare to find five roles in one piece where we'd all jump at the chance to play any of them.
I think you put art out into the world, and sometimes it's divisive, sometimes it's embraced. Sometimes people cry, laugh or have complicated reactions.
As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.
I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.
I find trying to solve problems and save lives is far more important than my film career.
Acting for me is not a business, it's about trying to make pieces of art that I believe that I feel proud of. And it's the journey of that.
You'll nip anybody who's coming at you with bullshit. You don't play around. You take this craft very seriously. It's what separates you, what separates an actor from an artist.
The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.
I am very shy - really shy - I even had a stutter as a kid, which I slowly got over, but I still regress into that shyness. So I don't like walking into a crowded restaurant by myself; I don't like going to a party by myself.
I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.
You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.
I've always been somebody on a journey of discovery.
I'm not drawn to stories that are just sort of fluffy. I'm just not, and I've tried to, and as a kid I was never drawn to them. I always chose complicated.
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If you're intuitive and you have a desire for people to be happy and you want equilibrium and you want life to be good, then you'll worry. But we need to embrace the idea that, "No, I'm putting that aside, over there, in a box. I'll open that box when I wake up in the morning and deal with it then." I really find that men tend to do that, and it's great to be able to do.
I never read reviews at all. I'm proud of the work I did.
I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.
