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" Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people. "
People
Losing
Parent
" As an actor, there's nothing worse than the sound of 'seven years'. I'm sure to some people it sounds amazing, but to us, it's, like, seven years of playing the same person. "
Nothing
Some People
People
" As an Englishwoman, you pick up a lot through osmosis. I've been watching the Queen all my life. But, yes, I did watch news footage and was able to pick a couple of little tics. For instance, she plays with her hands a lot and has a certain way of holding them on her lap when she's in public. "
Hands
You
She
" Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character. "
Time
Character
Real Life
" Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them. "
Them
Thrust
Celebrities
" Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio. "
Obsessed
Growing Up
Up
" History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn. "
Great
History
Anne
" I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher. "
Think
Like
Research
" I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want. "
Am
Whatever
Always
" I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan's Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for - a young woman trying to navigate a path through an extraordinary situation. "
Grateful
Opportunity
Path
" If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to. "
Hobby
Acting
Always
" If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you. "
Got
Doing
Make
" I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue. "
Actor
Hate
Pose
" I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing. "
Really
Working
Mother
" I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice. "
Got
Acting
Choice
" I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea. "
Home
Food
Eating
" I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off. "
Burn
Energy
Fast
" In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family. "
She
Cry
Emotions
" I think, generally, British people are more culturally cynical about the things that involve our own country. Especially the royals. "
More
Think
People
" I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different. "
Need
Think
Play
" I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library. "
Queen
British
Go
" I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren. "
Audience
Think
Private
" I think, whenever you're doing anything, you don't want anyone anywhere to watch it and think that what your character is doing is ridiculous. You don't want anyone to watch it and go, 'Oh my God, that's just fortuitous.' "
Doing
You
Want
" I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle. "
You
Think
Monarchy
" I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as a mother or a father or daughter. "
Mother
Daughter
Father
" I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line. "
Know
Prejudice
Single
" I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from. "
Security
Never
Good
" I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob. "
Drama
Zombie
Think
" Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing. "
Man
Think
Story
" The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years. "
Kings
People
God
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