It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

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?

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

I buy the odd book. There's a great book out at the moment called Ego Is the Enemy.

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

Famously, Anne Boleyn was not a beauty: she was more about quirkiness and an innate sensuality, and there are a lot of references to her eyes. Which sends out a great message for women, because life is not about the aesthetic all the time.