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" Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way. "

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" We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men. "

" To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element. "

" Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

" It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist. "

" 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. "

" 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'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find? "

" 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'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality. "

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

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

" 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 love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am. "

" Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional. "

" I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects. "

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

" I'm a natural blonde! "

" So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great. "

" I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph. "

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

" 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 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. "