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.

I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?

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

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

I'm sure it's there traced along my career. I'm sure it is in most actresses' careers.

Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.

I’ve spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like