Top 183 Quotes & Sayings by Natalie Dormer - Page 2

Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.

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?

Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.

'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.

Kids are very cruel to each other.

I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.

Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.

My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.

Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.

I'm always open to trying out new things.

I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.

More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!

As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

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?

If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!

I've been insane from a very early age.

When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively.

I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.

There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

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.

I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.

I'm a bed monster.

Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.

When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.

We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.

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.

I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.

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.

Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.

Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'

I love cycling.

I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.

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.

Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.

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.

I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.

I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.

It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.

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.

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.

I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.

I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.

I love poker!

There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.

Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.

I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.

Privacy is important to me. But it's not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don't want anyone to know my business. It's an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.

As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.

I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

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.

I want to keep people guessing.

I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.