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" My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan. "

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

" I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun. "

" 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. "

" Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.' "

" It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily. "

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

" 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. "

" When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively. "

" I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know? "

" I'm a 'Blackadder' girl. "

" Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair. "

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

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

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

" My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time. "

" I love cycling. "

" When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I'm old-school like that. "

" I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box. "

" 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 taken my clothes off enough in my career. "

" I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time. "