Natalie Dormer
The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.Collection: Amazing
I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.Collection: Equality
I get accused of having a haughty smugness. I have a lopsided mouth. I can't help it. I was born with it. It looks as if I am smirking. I have had my publicist tell me, 'Don't do that smile on the red carpet.' I'm, like, 'That's my smile.'Collection: Smile
So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great.Collection: Wedding
I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.Collection: Car
Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
I'm a bed monster.
I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
I love poker!
You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
I've been insane from a very early age.
Kids are very cruel to each other.
I want to keep people guessing.
Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate.
Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.
Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively.
It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.
Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.