Rose Leslie

“It's nice to get my teeth into something that isn't a stereotypical female role.”

“It's a wonderful thing to have a character with tons of attributes.”

“With big productions, you can sometimes get lost with the terminology and all the different departments.”

“Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.”

“I taught myself to listen and kind of regurgitate what I was surrounded by, and it's been a wonderful tool to have as an actor.”

“I would love to do comedy, but you have to be phenomenally good. I'm not sure I'm there yet. I can imagine it being so much fun but I don't think I've quite got the gall to go ahead just yet.”

“You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.”

“People say how come I'm from Scotland yet I sound like the Queen?! I went to boarding school in Somerset, which has probably got something to do with it.”

“I was so fortunate; in the years that I was in 'Thrones,' we were able to shoot in Iceland. I think some of my favourite memories would have to be isolated out there, surrounded by nothing but snow and ice.”

“From a young age, I wanted to differentiate myself from my older siblings.”

“I had the most fantastic time filming 'Downton.'”

“First and foremost, Scotland is my home, and I do consider myself Scottish, but I also feel very British, and I hope that Scotland stays within the Union. I have a real concern about independence.”

“I do love archery in my day-to-day life because I find it very therapeutic, and I've trained every season with the bow and arrow.”

“Growing up in Britain, Michael Caine has always been such an icon. Chatting with him, I know I came across as the biggest doofus. Literally, I was, like, bowing to him.”

“The universe is so enormous, and we have no idea what's on the other side of the galaxy. It's a lovely thing to be able to tap into. I'm definitely not opposed to any supernatural ideas, but I've never encountered any. I believe in spirits, but I've never seen a ghost. And I believe in Heaven and Hell.”

“My parents live there, and I was born and raised in Scotland. I lived there for the first 11 years of my life, until my parents decided to take our family to France where we lived for a couple of years. We then moved back to Scotland, and that is where I feel most home - where I come back to myself, and I love more than I can say.”

“I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a scene with Michael Caine.”

“Certainly part of being from a big family is that you have to shout to make yourself heard.”

“For the first time in my life I tried whale. It was very chewy and quite fatty. My friend had had whale before, so I knew it would be quite blubbery. It was delicious. I loved it. It was smoked, so it had a lovely kind of tangy taste to it. We had it a couple of nights. I was won over. It was very yummy.”

“I definitely think it opened doors for me and what was so fantastic about 'Downton' being showed over in the States, was that it helped get me noticed.”