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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.
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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.
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I love poker!
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My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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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.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I've always been a history lover. 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.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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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.
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.