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I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.

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Underdog, Rogue, Always, Rebel

You're always one of the only girls, because there are so many male writers, and there are not enough good parts for women.

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Enough, Always, Writers, Good Parts

I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.

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Circumstances, Feel, About, Extinguished

I became completely obsessed with the Royal family, or at least the psychology behind them.

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Behind, Obsessed, Became, Royal Family

I've always been pretty indifferent towards the royal family. I went on a school trip once to Buckingham Palace, and all I can remember is that it was really boring.

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Always, Been, Palace, Royal Family

Before filming 'The Crown,' I couldn't care less about the royal family. But now... I'm obsessed.

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Obsessed, Before, About, Royal Family

Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov... they're masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.

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Other, About, Subtext, Morgan

When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'

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London, Doing, Southwest, Goddesses

You are what you think. I really believe that. And I don't think you ever stop doubting yourself.

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Think, Stop, Ever, Doubting

My parents would always take me to the theatre, and I was bored a lot of the time. Loads of Shakespeare, and I didn't know what the hell was going on. And then, when I was 13, we went to see 'The Cherry Orchard,' and it changed everything for me.

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Theatre, Hell, Cherry, Orchard

My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.

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Love, Play, Maybe, Suited

We know all about actors and singers because they do interviews, but with the royals, everything's so tightly controlled. They live this strange reality behind closed doors.

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Behind, Singers, About, Tightly

My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved Shakespeare, and he took us to tons of theater.

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Big, Always, Took, Tons

I've been told that I have no filter.

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Been, Filter

I hate the idea of massive fame. I think the scariest thing for an actor is when your name becomes bigger than your craft or what you can do.

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Think, Idea, I Think, Scariest

I did The 'Acid Test' at the Royal Court, by Anya Reiss, who's the most wonderful, amazing female writer. She was only 19 when she wrote it. She wrote it about three girls in a flat on a Friday night, and that was magic because it was so rare to have three girls in your age group in a play. It just doesn't happen.

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Magic, Play, Friday Night, Friday

When I was auditioning for drama school and looking for a monologue, it was all, 'I'm whinging about my period or my baby that has died or my boyfriend...' Why can't you have a normal girl, talking about ideas?

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Why, Boyfriend, About, Monologue

I love the Sixties and all those iconic women, Bridget Bardot and things like that, so I tend to lean towards those sorts of things.

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Love, Iconic, Like, Sixties

So many times, you pick up a script, and you think, 'OK, so she's the sexy one,' or, 'She's the ex-girlfriend.'

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Sexy, Think, Many, OK

I've been really lucky to work with a lot of theater directors in the film, like Stephen Daldry on 'The Crown' and Richard Eyre on 'The Dresser.'

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Lucky, Been, Richard, Dresser

Growing up, the image I had of Princess Margaret was completely different. I knew that she was a slightly tragic figure, but I didn't know why. Now, I love her with my all my heart. She was such an amazing person, and getting to 'know' her better was an honor.

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Love, Honor, Slightly, All My Heart

What your insides are doing, your outside reflects, and what you give to yourself, you can give to others.

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Doing, Outside, Give, Reflects

I never want to make any characters one-dimensional, especially as women can often be portrayed as the dark one or the evil one.

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Want, Often, Any, Portrayed

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

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World, Sometimes, Whoever, Wherever

Chris McQuarrie cast me in 'Mission Impossible' because he'd seen 'The Crown' and loved it.

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Loved, Mission, Cast, Chris

I always saw myself as a stage actress, and that was the reason I wanted to act, but very slowly, I've changed.

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Reason, Always, Actress, Slowly

Family relationships are just so fascinating - how they shape you as a person, how you can wound each other, how you're imprinted in a way by your family and the conditions under which you grow up.

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Grow, Other, Which, Conditions

I'm not interested in being known for anything other than the work.

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Work, Other, Known, Not Interested

I was always bossing my sister around.

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Always, Around, Sister

I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.

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Bad, Apply, Audition, Drama School

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