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..

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 ….

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more..

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 per….

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart..

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 con….

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 opinionat….

Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?.

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law..

I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the Fren….

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 ex….

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair..

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd..

I think we have to monitor our minds the way we need to monitor our bodies..

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to t….

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. Everyone forgets how young she is because she's so together, such an old soul. She just gets it. She's on….

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 belie….

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 m….

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead..

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 ….

The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!.