When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.
All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.
A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.
I've never understood why you would turn down a great role.
I love political dramas. I love good story-telling.
What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.
As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.
What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature.
I like to be comfortable.
When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.
Usually, on a show like 'Game of Thrones,' you don't have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available.
I think what's great is that, when HBO commit, they go in all guns blazing. They attract the very best set designers, the whole thing.
Most female actresses will have a very difficult time being made unattractive.
You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.
The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.
I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.
I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.
There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.
I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many.
If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.
Most of us have been in that situation where you've been falling in love with somebody who didn't feel the same way. It's not a nice situation.
It's beautiful being out in the wild.
One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.
I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.
The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.
I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.
I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
I'm a fan of great storytelling.
I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.
