Natalie Dormer
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.
Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
Women are over 50 percent of the population.
What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.
I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
I'm a natural blonde!
We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.
I'm not going to comment about potential jobs in the future because that's a rabbit hole to go down and get caught up in, but all I'll say is I'll go where the good scripts are.
I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.
I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?
When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.
I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.Collection: New Year
I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.Collection: Kids
I know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.Collection: Thinking
If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.Collection: Running
You're watching us and you don't realize how much makeup and how much lighting is involved when we look good. We have a lot of help where we are. I don't think that it's healthy for young girls to be looking at these beauty magazines and watching TV and these shows and thinking [that's the standard]… there's more European attitude - you look at French film, Spanish film, they're a little more open to quirks and human nature. That we're not all symmetrical, not all the same shape… we need more of that.Collection: Girl
I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.Collection: School
I think we have to monitor our minds the way we need to monitor our bodies.Collection: Thinking
You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.Collection: Humans
I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.Collection: Jumping
I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.Collection: Thinking
Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.Collection: Upset
No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.Collection: Thinking
Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.Collection: Heart
I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.Collection: Mother
Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?Collection: Lovely
Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. Everyone forgets how young she is because she's so together, such an old soul. She just gets it. She's one savvy chick.Collection: Girl
I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.Collection: Real
The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!Collection: Jobs
For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances.Collection: Men
I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.Collection: Writing
It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?Collection: People
I don't think you can be a diver without a shark on the list.Collection: Thinking
You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.Collection: Real
Cersei took so many of us out in the last episode and she's really turned dark; even Jaime Lannister can see that, so I don't think that Cersei Lannister is long for her Westeros world. I hope she's not.Collection: Dark
A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.Collection: Fun
Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.Collection: Mom
I think that's the most dangerous kind of sexism: People don't realize it's there and we end up surreptitiously accepting it because it's just part of our culture. I've never experienced explicit, overt, confrontational sexism personally.Collection: Thinking
I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.Collection: Sitting