Actress

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.

I absolutely love Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global consciousness. I think she's phenomenal.

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.

I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.'

I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe.

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches.

Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.

I loved working with Michelle Fairley.

I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends.

Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling.

I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.

My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance.

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious.