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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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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.
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I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
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I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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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.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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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.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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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.