I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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.
When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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.
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?
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?
There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
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.
'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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.
I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
I meet fascinating people I respect and idolise all the time.
I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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?
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.
I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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.
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
I want to keep people guessing.
Madonna is completely down-to-earth. She's an absolute professional.
Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
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.
I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?
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.
I've been insane from a very early age.
