All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do.

You can't come out of drama school and think, 'It's all going to be amazing.' You have to expect to work in a bar for at least five years and be a waitress for maybe two!

My life is unrecognisable compared to what it was - 'Game of Thrones' has opened doors that were never there before. But it can be dangerous to see it in those terms, I think. It's best to take it as it comes and work as hard as you can, and hopefully the other things fall into place.

I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.

My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is to never touch my eyebrows and to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day.

I cannot contain this. Please, can we all have something sexual together? You're both beautiful, even just a hug.'

The '90s were really just bad for fashion and hair.