Top 75 Natalie Dormer Quotes

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.

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.

Nothing is taken lightly in ‘The Hunger Games.’

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

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.

The hair department on ‘Game of Thrones’ is incredible.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We don’t have enough young, female antiheroes. We don’t accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There’s an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his repertoire that lends itself beautifully to the nature of Henry VIII, definitely. He will push things to the limit, and yet remain in emotional control.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Jennifer Lawrence is just the coolest girl.

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?

I love poker!

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

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

I love cycling.

Sometimes a woman’s looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.

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

‘The Hunger Games’ has something for everyone.

I’m a bed monster.

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 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.

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

I’ve played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn’t be?

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

I’m a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

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.

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.

Kids are very cruel to each other.

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

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.

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.

I was a very physical child… I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.

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

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

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside – it means I’m home.

I’m not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

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.

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

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.

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.

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’m a natural blonde!

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?

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