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

I think we have to monitor our minds the way we need to monitor our bodies.

Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

Problems reconciling mom and the wife are difficult in the best of times.

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

When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity, which Game of Thrones deals with all those things, then I'm just grateful that it reinstates my faith that art can be life applicable.

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