“I’m an unlucky charm… don’t go anywhere with me.”
“When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumper and hair scrunch, so I’d say I’ve definitely progressed since then in terms of style.”
“’If you believe, you can achieve’ – that’s my motto!”
“Courtesy is a lady’s armor.”
“Once every lunar eclipse, you should be able to see me smile!”
“You don’t want to be innocent in the world of ‘Game of Thrones.’”
“I don’t really have a process. I’m very much an in-the-moment actress. I suppose I just kind of wing it because I feel that as long as I know my character, I should be able to be spontaneous on set.”
“To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in.”
“There are no black and white, good or bad characters in ‘Game Of Thrones,’ but Joffrey was an exception. Just pure evil.”
“When I was growing up, I always saw Karen Millen as a resource for women who were a bit older.”
“In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.”
“Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, ‘As soon as you turn 16, you’re going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it’s important not to be a pushover.’”
“I found it really difficult when teachers talked down to me.”
“I will be able to look back on my teen years as spent on a television set just having the biggest bunch of fun.”
“Growing up, I always wanted a dog, but my parents never wanted one.”
“A lot of fans that recognize me go, ‘I kind of hate you,’ and I’m all, ‘Cool, well, you’ve just made this sufficiently awkward.’”
“Listen – and I don’t care who knows it – I’m a Belieber!”
“I don’t think that the status of a show, big or small, should affect a person’s performance.”
“My character from ‘Panda Eyes,’ Fay, is the character I see myself in a lot.”
“It’s quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It’s a relief that that’s over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.”
“Ghostly things don’t really scare me, but they really intrigue me.”
“The one fiction show I watch is ‘Hannibal.’ I love it!”
“You’ve got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.”
“I learn something new everyday about myself as an actor, my capabilities, how far I can stretch myself, throw out emotions I never knew I had.”
“I think I’m not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.”
“I find it quite easy to get in and out of character. I don’t know why – I guess it’s my job.”
“How can you not love Jack Gleeson? He’s amazing. He’s the nicest guy.”
“Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.”
“Every audition that I walk out of where I think I nailed it, I never get that job, ever.”
“When I was younger, before I was born, I lost my twin, so I think I’ve always had a fascination for telepathy or the way that twins act and react with each other.”
“On ‘Game of Thrones,’ all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.”
“I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it’s a kind of an environmental thing.”
“My whole adolescence has been on ‘Game of Thrones;’ I don’t know what I’m going to do without it.”
“I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the future. I think those actors are amazing, and they are my favourite actors by far.”
“Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I’m very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.”
“Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I really wish I had, like, seven lives so I could go from being a hipster one day to a punk the next. But that’s the great thing about fashion. In a way, it’s like acting, because you can try on all these different roles.”
“Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-coming designers like Michael van der Ham.”
“Clearly I’m really attracted to parts where there’s a dark, sinister feel about them!”
“I feel the pressure to be toned, yeah, and everyone’s going on about the thigh gap, but I like food more than exercise, so I’ll just carry on that way.”
“Obviously I’ve had crushes, and I’ve tried to make things work with people, but it doesn’t when you’re away so much. I like to think, ‘Don’t go looking for it; it’ll happen when it wants to happen.’”
“I used to fancy Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I didn’t tell him that when we worked together on ‘Another Me.’”
“I’m a Rihanna, Beyonce kind of person.”
“I can’t watch ‘Titanic’ without breaking down within the first 10 minutes. You know, when it got re-released in 3D, I went to see it again. My mom came to pick me up from the cinema, and I was just bawling my eyes out.”
“I don’t get any dates; that’s the thing.”
“I really like The Vamps. I’m friends with a couple of the guys from the band, so that’s fun.”
“When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany’s necklace from the producers of ‘Game of Thrones’ with my character’s name Sansa engraved on it.”
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