Claire Foy

“I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.”

“The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.”

“If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you.”

“If I was working nine to five, acting would be my hobby... I always feel like maybe I should do an Open University degree. But I'm never going to.”

“I've worked in supermarkets, put tags in baseball caps and provided security during Wimbledon, but I never thought acting would be something I'd be any good at, or make a living from.”

“The coronation is a symbol of power, but it's not a symbol for us the people. It's a symbol for that person, who is a human, to become a higher being and become one with God. The church, the scepter, and the crown have been around forever. And the line of kings of England goes back thousands of years.”

“I'm lucky I have a fast metabolism... my whole family does... everyone's got a lot of nervous energy so we burn it off.”

“I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as a mother or a father or daughter.”

“I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.”

“There is no first-hand account of what the Queen was saying or thinking, so my job as an actor is to interpret her circumstances.”

“I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different.”

“I think you can't have the monarchy without the coronation. I think you would have to get rid of the whole kit and caboodle.”

“I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan's Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for - a young woman trying to navigate a path through an extraordinary situation.”

“I am always so envious of people who do whatever they want.”

“I always like to do quite a lot of homework; I quite like to do the research. If I didn't do this, I think I would like to be a researcher.”

“I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.”

“Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.”

“I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.”