Natalie Dormer Quotes

I don't want to know about the lives of other actors and I don't want people to know too much about me. If we don't know about the private lives of other actors, that leaves us as clean slates when it comes to playing characters. That's the point, they can create these other characters and I can believe them.

I'm private because I want to be private.

I'm somebody who values anonymity - not just in terms of not wanting people to recognize me or wanting my privacy, but I value anonymity in conversation.

I'm the most private person.

Acting is about covering up traces of who you are and just being the character. I think it's easier to accept people in roles if you don't know a lot about them.

Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.

I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.

There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.

I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

I'm private in the sense that I like my personal space and only want people in the parts of my business that I choose to share. Anything I feel is too personal to share publicly, I keep to myself.

I definitely keep myself secret.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.

I am a private person; I think that's important if you're an actor. But there's a difference between privacy and secrecy, and I'm not a secretive person.

I have no particular formula for staying private.

Some people in the public eye are hardline, like, 'We don't share anything about ourselves.' And that's fine.

I'm one of those old-fashioned people who keeps their private life private.

I've always been really private.

I don’t like anyone knowing anything about me that I didn’t choose to tell them.

That's one good thing about the way life is, that no one can know you if you don't let them.