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
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.
There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.
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.
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 an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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.
Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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.
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?
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.
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.
I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
I love cycling.
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.'
I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
I'm always open to trying out new things.
I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.
As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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.
Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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.
Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'
I want to keep people guessing.
I've been insane from a very early age.
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'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
I've been told that N.Y. in the spring is pretty special.
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 couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
Being seduced by a man on crutches was an interesting experience.
Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.
Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate.
Kids are very cruel to each other.
