You can be as good an actor as you want but, if your accent is too strong, it's going to limit you.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
I actually read somewhere that they measured how many calories you burn from watching movies, and horror movies are way, way up the list.
It doesn't hurt to be in 'Game of Thrones,' that's for sure, mainly because people actually see your work, and that is great.
Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!'
I like to be comfortable. If I go out, if it's a premiere, I'll put on a suit and look nice. I like Hugo Boss for that.
'Game of Thrones' is so unique, and the odds that any of us involved will be in another show like it are very slim, so I'm enjoying the ride.
Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don't see any point in being together if you're not being honest, having fun together, and respecting one another. Why would you stay in a relationship otherwise?
There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.
There's nothing exceptional about me, but there's something exceptional about Jaime Lannister, and I think that's what's interesting.
I'm in a monogamous relationship and have been for many, many years. I think it's a choice. I don't think you can generalize, though, and what works for me may not work for other people, but I don't think everybody cheats. We're all different.
Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something.
I think advice is cheap. You can only really learn by doing and making mistakes.
I don't necessarily enjoy being at the gym. It's something I have to do, more than something I look forward to doing. But it does enable me to do fun things.
I work a lot abroad and have the most wonderful family and kids, but being away, you do miss out sometimes. I really hope I won't regret the choices in the future.
I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.
I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.
I love team sports.
My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up.
When I was first told about 'Game of Thrones,' I didn't know the books, anything. So I read the pilot, and when I got the first script, it was clear the story was about these people and families and a constant battle for power.
Abusive relationships go on and on. You're in it for so long that it can almost be impossible to see it for what it is. That just becomes your life. We get used to and adapt.
I would be very wrong to charge anyone to watch me dance or sing.
I love to go into John Varvatos and look at the beautiful leather jackets. They're beautiful and soft. I try them on, and then I look at the price tag and go and pick up a t-shirt. It's just the way I am.
I actually met a cop who worked with street gangs. I wanted to understand what drives someone who deals with very hardened criminals on a daily basis. How do you turn that off when you go home at night?
Acting in 'Game of Thrones' is all consuming.
Most people can relate to that whole annoying thing when people think they know who you are.
It's okay for a guy to be a baddie, but a woman? No, we can't deal with that.
I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.
I'm a fan of Ed Norton.
I always feel for the younger cast members in 'Game of Thrones.' They're really clever and smart.
I haven't really got any hidden talents.
I love skiing.
Fart jokes still work for me.
There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.
I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn't come true.
Burpees are great, but they just kill you.
I think the core of Jaime Lannister is actually that final line in the pilot when he says, 'The things I do for love.' He might do horrible things - and they are truly, some of them, horrific. There's no excuses. But he does it out of what he sees as a necessity, out of love.
For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see your father make out with another woman. It's not cool.
My old mother, she has no idea what's going on in this world.
I'm very good when people dress me. But I find it difficult to spend a lot of money on clothes.
I do remember a teacher telling me when I was about ten that I was really good at acting. I was so proud, even though I am sure he said that to all of us in the class.
I started at drama school at 18.
Jerome Flynn is a great actor.
The most famous actress who did the 'dumb blond' routine was Marilyn Monroe, but she was a genius actress.
Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough.
There's a recent film, the Swedish movie 'Force Majeure.' I just thought it was brilliant.
Still, to this day, I can't run on the treadmill. Why not just run outside? I never understood it.
My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland.
Divorce is always terrible, but I haven't met anyone who went through it and isn't happier now.
Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it's about how she grows up in New York. There's no obvious reason why I should enjoy this - I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I'm a guy from a small town in Denmark.
You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds.
