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I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.
You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.
Fashion, historically, is how people make statements about themselves or communicate.
I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.
I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.
I just want to play real human beings. You know, I don't care if they're male or female.
There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.
It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.
It's funny how being an actor forces you to do things or go places that you wouldn't ordinarily.
From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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.'
I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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 do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.
I think we all remember Emma Peel from 'The Avengers,' the feminist icon that she was in the late '60s.
It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
A character on a page has to feel real, and for me the greatest fun is if you could gender-swap the role.
We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.
I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.
I think women have always been trying to look healthy. The makeup artists just teach you the quick cheats.
I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.
I started writing it, because it was seven years ago. But yes, that is the genesis of why I started writing.
You’re adored and you’re talented and the world is waiting to see the results of hard work for the last year
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.
I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.
I love being part of huge mega blockbusters, and I love being a part of small independent films and small stage.
I started writing In Darkness out of a frustration of the quality of roles that I was reading in scripts for women.
My yoga mat comes everywhere. Keeps me stretched out after sitting still on all those planes, trains and road journeys.
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.
The Tudors”) “I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!
When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.
What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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.
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.
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.
There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.
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.
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.
Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as we all are?
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?
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.
Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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.