Dormer Quotes & Sayings

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

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. — Mindy Kaling

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

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

Everything Is Going to Be All Right
How should I not be glad to contemplate
the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window
and a high tide reflected on the ceiling?
There will be dying, there will be dying,
but there is no need to go into that.
The poems flow from the hand unbidden
and the hidden source is the watchful heart.
The sun rises in spite of everything
and the far cities are beautiful and bright.
I lie here in a riot of sunlight
watching the day break and the clouds flying.
Everything is going to be all right. — Derek Mahon

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

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 you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?" — Richard 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

Got sock? Foot cold. — Frank W. Dormer

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

Listen to everything that is said, and see everything that is done. Observe the looks and countenances of those who speak, which is often a surer way of discovering the truth than from what they say. But then keep all those observations to yourself, for your own private use, and rarely communicate them to others. Observe, without being thought an observer, for otherwise people will be upon their guard before you. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

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

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

I come now to another part of your letter, which is the orthography, if I may call bad spelling orthography. You spell induce, enduce; and grandeur, you spell grandure; two faults, of which few of my house-maids would have been guilty. I must tell you, that orthography, in the true sense of the word, is so absolutely necessary for a man of letters, or a gentleman, that one false spelling may fix a ridicule upon him for the rest of his life; and I know a man of quality, who never recovered the ridicule of having spelled wholesome without the w. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

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

I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl. — Natalie Dormer

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

I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself ... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully. — Natalie Dormer

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.' — Sophie Turner

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

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

When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better. — Richard Dormer

A man is fit for neither business nor pleasure, who either cannot, or does not, command and direct his attention to the present object, and, in some degree, banish for that time all other objects from his thoughts. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

Take warning then by them: choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. Follow nature and not fashion: weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and then let your own common sense determine your choice. Were — Philip Dormer Stanhope

The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Honorius Hatchard had been old Miss Hatchard's great-uncle; though she would undoubtedly have reversed the phrase, and put forward, as her only claim to distinction, the fact that she was his great-niece. For Honorius Hatchard, in the early years of the nineteenth century, had enjoyed a modest celebrity. As the marble tablet in the interior of the library informed its infrequent visitors, he had possessed marked literary gifts, written a series of papers called "The Recluse of Eagle Range," enjoyed the acquaintance of Washington Irving and Fitz-Greene Halleck, and been cut off in his flower by a fever contracted in Italy. Such had been the sole link between North Dormer and literature, a link piously commemorated by the erection of the monument where Charity Royall, every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, sat at her desk under a freckled steel engraving of the deceased author, and wondered if he felt any deader in his grave than she did in his library. — Edith Wharton

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

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

I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it. — Natalie Dormer

Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way. — Natalie Dormer

I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time. — Natalie Dormer

As your affection for me can only proceed from your experience and conviction of my fondness for you (for to talk of natural affection is talking nonsense), the only return I desire is, what it is chiefly your interest to make me; I mean your invariable practice of virtue, and your indefatigable pursuit of knowledge. Adieu! and be persuaded that I shall love you extremely, while you deserve it; but not one moment longer. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a freeborn British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay more; I will not only obey him, like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair; but no longer. — Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair. — Natalie Dormer

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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. — 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 are really so prejudiced by our educations, that, as the ancients deified their heroes, we deify their madmen. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

When you get out onto a glacier that's the size of Northern Ireland and it's so vast, and you're standing on top of it and you can see forever, it's so pure and clear that you can see for miles and miles and miles. You really do think, "Wow, there is a god!" You feel very humbled. — Richard Dormer

As a writer you see the big picture and how you can tell as one character, how your storyline is going to meet up with all these other storylines. And as an actor you're thinking of all the minutiae, all the very small details. — Richard 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

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

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Idleness is only the refuge of weak
minds, and the holiday of fools. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

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. — Natalie Dormer

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

The sky is the color of gray flannel, the darkness broken only by the dormer window of another early riser. The woman who lives in that attic painted her walls yellow, and the reflected light bounces out like a spring crocus. If light were sound, her window would be playing a concerto. — Eloisa James

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

My first time to Rome was when I was backpacking with my best friend around Europe for a month at 18 years old, so I remember that excitement of being away from home properly for the first time. — Natalie Dormer

When she left the library, pearly threads linked roof to roof, dormer to dormer, a luminescent web under which everyone was equally chosen. — Anouk Markovits

Secret thoughts and an open countenance will take you safely the world over — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

Did it ever occur to you that there might be more than one alternative? — Richard Dormer

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. — Natalie Dormer

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

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. — 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

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

I'm a bed monster. — Natalie Dormer

Her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. — Gustave Flaubert

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

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