It's a writer's or director's role to be cerebral, whereas for an actor it should be a visceral, gut thing. When the action starts, it's best to turn the brain off and let it become an instinctual thing.

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 don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.

I have Margaery Tyrell's - I didn't take it, I was given it - but yes, David [Benioff] and Dan [Weiss] gave me Margaery Tyrell's wedding crown. So that is sitting on my bookshelf.

I don't believe in nudity for nudity's sake, nothing gratuitous.

You don't want the men to be written in a three-dimensional way and the women, not.

We accept women being complete c-nts if they’re doing it for a child.