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" I'm a 'Blackadder' girl. "
Natalie Dormer
Girl
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist. "
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" 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. "
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" It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair. "
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" I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully. "
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" I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage. "
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" Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.' "
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" My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys. "
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" I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right? "
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" I'm a bed monster. "
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" Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application. "
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" There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find? "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity. "
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" We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time. "
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" Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair. "
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" I love poker! "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics. "
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" There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me. "
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" Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull. "
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" I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like. "
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