Quotes from Emma Corrin

There's a scene where Diana is having her first dinner at Balmoral, my first big scene with everyone. I didn't really know anyone super well at that point. I had this big story to tell about hunting, a real tongue twister. And I just couldn't say it.

It's been a joke my entire life, because I'm quite limby, I'm very uncoordinated. Everyone finds it hysterical that I've started dancing.

I hate being asked what it's like to play someone iconic.

I think that's what Peter Morgan does so well, is to show very balanced sides of everyone.

I loved playing young Diana so much. I am so fond of her, it's almost insane.

I wrote a lot as a child. I had an insane imagination.

Everyone has this insatiable need to share things with everyone. I think people want to be seen.

Costume is integral, but it clicks into place last.

I feel like Diana helped me explore so many depths of myself and really do a big internal discovery of what I was feeling about everything because she was a very complex person.

A lot of people refer to young Diana as sweet and shy, and yeah, a lot of us are when we're 18 or whatever.

You can't understand old Diana - older Diana - properly without understanding a 19-year-old living with her flatmates, going on her first date with Charles. You need to understand the trajectory that she underwent.

I think in America, people have this, I think you guys have an obsession over the Royal family in a way that we don't. Because I guess we just live with it.

Working with Harry Lambert has brought so much fun and imagination into my personal style.

I do 5Rhythms a lot. It's like dance meditation. You go into a room and there's a DJ and it's in the evening, completely sober, and it's spiritual. You can just move and dance however you want.

I never looked up what a Midwestern accent was; I just did a very generic one.

I'd run a mile if anyone in the Royal Family asked me to marry them!

You do your job, you come home, and then like try and drown out the rest. I think it's a really important mindset to have, especially if stuff starts quickly and you're young. Because the rest of it is scary.

The sooner I can move away from doing posh English, the better, even though that's what I am.

I'm indifferent to the royal family really, but I do feel sorry for them. We know what happened to Diana. It's an impossible situation.

Someone at school said I dance like a spider, and I've never got beyond that. It's always been a running joke in my friendship groups.

My journey has been a long one and has still got a long way to go. I think we are so used to defining ourselves. That's the way society works within these binaries and it's taken me a long time to realize that I exist somewhere in between and I'm still not sure where that is yet.

I think I'd be lying if I said it didn't help me in my journey with everything to play someone like Diana. She was so openhearted to everything and explored so much.

Apparently, cats are very, very curious and have a mysterious power that draws people to them.

I worked with a great photographer called Rafael Pavarotti a while ago and he's got some amazing playlists on Spotify.