Top 100 Quotes About Natalie Dormer
#1. Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.'
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#2. If you're Natalie Dormer, you can take big fashion risks and shave half your head, and it looks good. If you're a normal person and you try that, you just look like you had recent brain surgery.
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#3. 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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#4. I was a very physical child ... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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#5. The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
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#6. I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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#8. 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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#9. I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.
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#11. 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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#12. There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.
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#14. 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.
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#15. There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
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#16. 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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#17. Sci-fi always runs out a little bit ahead of reality, right? Automatic doors in 'Star Trek,' stuff like that. It all happened, didn't it, finally?
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#18. I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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#19. I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
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#20. We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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#21. I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
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#22. Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.
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#23. We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
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#24. I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
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#25. 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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#27. I say I'm an atheist but I wouldn't mind being visited by a ghost.
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#29. As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.
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#33. You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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#34. 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.
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#35. If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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#36. I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.
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#37. I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
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#38. 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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#39. I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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#41. 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.
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#42. I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.
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#43. Isn't it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
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#44. It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.
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#45. 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.
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#46. 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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#49. My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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#52. As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
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#53. I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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#54. It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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#55. 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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#57. What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
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#59. I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York - New York helped give me my first big break.
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#60. We accept women being complete c-nts if they're doing it for a child.
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#61. I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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#62. Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.
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#63. The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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#64. There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?
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#65. 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.
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#66. From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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#67. I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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#68. I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
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#70. Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.
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#71. 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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#72. Women have a lot of ... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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#73. Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
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#74. The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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#75. To be joining 'The Hunger Games' family is such a thrill. It deserves the hype because it's well written, handles really big subject matter, but doesn't talk down to its audience. And then there's the romance element.
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#77. 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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#78. 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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#80. 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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#81. As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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#82. 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?
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#83. 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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#84. 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.
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#85. 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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#86. I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood ... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
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#87. Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.
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#88. 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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#89. I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?
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#90. 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.
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#91. I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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#92. I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.
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#93. 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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#94. I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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#95. When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise.
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#96. I love going out of my comfort zone - I live to go out of my comfort zone.
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#97. Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
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#98. I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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#99. It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
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#100. Actors have this amazing skill - we bond quite quickly but equally we move on quite quickly. There's nothing particularly cold or capricious about it - we're troubadours and lead a troubadour's lifestyle.
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