Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack.

Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.

As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves.

Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.

I'm just not wearing any makeup. People thinking I'm wearing prosthetics of all sorts, I just don't have any makeup on.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

The words you use can destroy people's confidence or provoke their greatness. Use your words to lift your world.

Every word spoken is a reflection of your inner beliefs!

The corrupt begat corruption.

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.

A human being is bound by emotion, enslaved by their desires. A person is never really at peace with themselves because they live in the spectrum of human consciousness.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

If love be blind, it best agrees with night