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" It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing. "

" 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 love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone. "

" I've taken my clothes off enough in my career. "

" 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. "

" I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics. "

" 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. "

" I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction. "

" 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. "

" I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway. "

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

" When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally. "

" There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me. "

" 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 love poker! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women are over 50 percent of the population. "

" I've been insane from a very early age. "

" I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York - New York helped give me my first big break. "

" I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it. "

" 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. "

" 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 was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be? "

" I'm a natural blonde! "

" There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "