My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
I don't know how to play evil.
I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
I'm completely the opposite of what I play on 'Game of Thrones.'
I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
I think I'm a very intuitive actress.
If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again - which is fine and makes me humble.
My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
Whenever you have to do a photo shoot with a woman, there is this weird competition. They need to prove something. They need to play games - maybe unconsciously - but women are so sensitive, and people call me more masculine sometimes.
For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
