Natalie Dormer Quotes & Sayings

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances. — Natalie Dormer

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? — Natalie Dormer

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be? — Natalie Dormer

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

So many little girls dream about their wedding day. But with actresses, sometimes it's the inverse, because we get to be the centre of attention, looked up and down, dressed up for premieres all the time. The pull isn't quite as great. — Natalie Dormer

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

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? — Natalie Dormer

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home. — Natalie Dormer

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

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer. — Natalie Dormer

I was a very physical child ... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy. — Natalie Dormer

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

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

I've been insane from a very early age. — Natalie Dormer

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

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. — Natalie Dormer

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd. — Natalie Dormer

When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive. — Natalie Dormer

Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

I want to keep people guessing. — Natalie Dormer

We accept women being complete c-nts if they're doing it for a child. — Natalie Dormer

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

'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

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

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

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times. — Natalie Dormer

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

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping. — Natalie Dormer

The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

I say I'm an atheist but I wouldn't mind being visited by a ghost. — Natalie Dormer

Kids are very cruel to each other. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage. — Natalie Dormer

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

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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 opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

I'm a natural blonde! — Natalie Dormer

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

I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn. — Natalie Dormer

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

A lot of boys in my poker circle are mathematicians who play on probability. I don't have that kind of brain, so I rely on instinct. But I recently found out that poker and cards in general go way back in my family gene pool. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

You're watching us and you don't realize how much makeup and how much lighting is involved when we look good. We have a lot of help where we are. I don't think that it's healthy for young girls to be looking at these beauty magazines and watching TV and these shows and thinking [that's the standard] there's more European attitude - you look at French film, Spanish film, they're a little more open to quirks and human nature. That we're not all symmetrical, not all the same shape we need more of that. — Natalie Dormer

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

I'm a 'Blackadder' girl. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

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

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

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.' — Natalie Dormer

We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women. — Natalie Dormer

I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow. — Natalie Dormer

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

The Tudors") "I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers! — Natalie Dormer

Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body. — Natalie Dormer

I'm a serial monogamist and would never dream of being as predatory as some of the women I've played. I can actually be a bit shy. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

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

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

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men. — Natalie Dormer

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? — Natalie Dormer

Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right? — Natalie Dormer

From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

Women are over 50 percent of the population. — Natalie Dormer

I've taken my clothes off enough in my career. — Natalie Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success. — Natalie Dormer

I don't think you can be a diver without a shark on the list. — Natalie Dormer