41 Quotes by Claire Foy

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

When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.

I think we should all have a private audience with Helen Mirren.

Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character.

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

The Queen has stayed with me in the sense that she lets people come to her. She doesn't feel like she has to go out. I mean, she doesn't have to anyway because of her rank and her position, but she doesn't have to overdo it.

In the first two episodes, before she becomes Queen, I could be a lot freer with my emotions, but as the series goes on, she develops an armour in order to cope with her circumstances. She has to be a sphinx, which must be so hard. Imagine never being able to shout, 'Shut up,' or cry, even in front of your own family.

History has done a great disservice to Anne Boleyn.