I just want to play real human beings. You know, I don't care if they're male or female.

Cersei took so many of us out in the last episode and she's really turned dark; even Jaime Lannister can see that, so I don't think that Cersei Lannister is long for her Westeros world. I hope she's not.

I do as much research as is physically possible when I'm playing a real person, be they alive or dead.

If you're a loner and you like to go off and run on your own, do that.

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.

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?

Women need to have access to counseling services in the way that American or British women can have if something really bad or upsetting happens to them.