Natalie Dormer Quotes

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

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.

I was a daydreamer as a kid. I want to act because of whatever artistic bone is in my body. I want to explore what it is to be alive. I just want to make good sh-t.

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 know people think that acting is not quite the occupation of grown-ups, but it is actually the ultimate learning process: You get a multitude of experiences, all for the price of one life.

I’ve always been a black sheep. That’s a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

I love going out of my comfort zone—I live to go out of my comfort zone. Obviously, you have quieter years than others—you don’t go jumping out of a plane every day.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

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.

These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much.

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 just want to play real human beings. You know, I don't care if they're male or female.

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.

I say I’m an atheist but I wouldn’t mind being visited by a ghost.

I do yoga weekly. I don't know who I'd be without yoga and running.

I feel that we live in an age where everyone's trying to reduce, and soundbite, and cut it down to140 characters, and that's not what life is.

A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.

Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.

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.

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. Everyone forgets how young she is because she's so together, such an old soul. She just gets it. She's one savvy chick.

I think we have to monitor our minds the way we need to monitor our bodies.

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.

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?

You don't want the white men to be written in a three-dimensional way but the black men, not. I mean, it's just about [how] scripts should always reflect real human beings. So that's what I look for.

If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.

I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.

For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances.

You’re adored and you’re talented and the world is waiting to see the results of hard work for the last year

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

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

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

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

I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

I go to yoga classes as well as practicing myself. I'm always open to new experiences and when I'm in different cities shooting, I try some local classes sometimes.

I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.

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