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All Quotes by author - Natalie Dormer

" Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle. "

" A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool. "

" Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of. "

" As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush. "

" As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms. "

" As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers. "

" As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers. "

" Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time. "

" Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience. "

" Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back. "

" Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep. "

" Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair. "

" Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals. "

" Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time. "

" Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate. "

" 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. "

" From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather. "

" Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body. "

" I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things. "

" I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me. "

" I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping. "

" I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow. "

" I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project. "

" If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play! "

" 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.' "

" I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever could have learned, never to believe you're home and dry. "

" I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning. "

" I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is. "

" I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage. "

" I love cycling. "

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