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When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.
Claire Foy -
I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.
Claire Foy
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The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.
Claire Foy -
With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant; you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love or feel loss or feel pain.
Claire Foy -
The monarchy is thousands of years old and has experienced many things like 'The Crown' in the past. They're always changing and evolving; that's the thing. They have to.
Claire Foy -
History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.
Claire Foy -
I love home, any home really - my mum's, and of course my own. I love eating food there and chilling in bed with a cup of tea.
Claire Foy -
I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.
Claire Foy
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The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.
Claire Foy -
I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.
Claire Foy -
Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Claire Foy -
I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.
Claire Foy -
Celebrities choose fame. Royals have it thrust on them.
Claire Foy -
I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.
Claire Foy