That's a really strange, unique position to be in - royalty is where you have no choice over what your duties are.
— Richard Madden
I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it.
I've done a few old-style romantic leads now.
Undoubtedly there is a difference between people with money having access to the arts that people from working-class backgrounds don't have, but that's not their fault. I'm not taking anything away from these brilliant actors who are doing great stuff in Hollywood. A lot of them are my friends.
I'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.
I have such pride in my job.
You learn something new on every film.
Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.
I love Lady Stoneheart!
Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.
I know people like Jon Snow a lot.
I hate all the red carpet stuff. It's weird, because it's part of what's expected of you now.
I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'
I only have an awareness of what I'm trying to achieve as an actor and what my job as the character is to service.
I don't find it hard to stay humble.
I try to be outdoors as much as I can.
I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.
I didn't really think about wanting to be a prince when I was a kid.
When you're on set with an actor like Derek Jacobi, it's not hard to tell the truth when you're looking in his eyes, and he's so open and creative and ready to play.
I'd really like to shave my hair off and get a bit more hard-edged.
My school didn't have a drama department. I was one of the lucky four children who got to travel twice a week to another school because our school could only afford one taxi.
For 'Cinderella,' I did six weeks of those interviews, where you get asked the same eight questions. If you're not capable of doing that gracefully, then don't do it.
I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.
I'm dying to do something sci-fi! I would love to be on a spaceship and firing a laser gun! Something like that would be really awesome. Or something with dinosaurs. Or preferably both at once.
I just love to be able to actually build a character.
To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.
I'm lucky to get jobs where I get these amazing film horses that make me look much better than I am.
'Game of Thrones' couldn't be a movie. There's too much in it. You couldn't do it justice.
I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.
If ever anyone comes up to me, it's usually like, 'You look really like that guy on that show.' And you're like, 'Really?' And they're like, 'Yeah. Cool. See you later.' And you're like, 'Cool, man.'
No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'
I need to kind of get a job that's going to take me to, like, Hawaii or Rio or something, right? Maybe I need to make better decisions with that.
We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.
I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'
I jumped off a platform, was supposed to land on a roof and slide down it, but I cleared the roof and landed on my ankle - snapped that to one side.
You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.
My best friend was really cool, and she went to a youth theatre in Paisley, so I thought maybe that's the way to do it. I went along, and I immediately found something I was passionate about and really enjoyed.
There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.
I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.
The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.
I went to drama school in Scotland.
I've watched 'Doctor Who' since I was a kid. I loved it, and I still love it. I can geek out about it, like when I go to set and see the TARDIS.
Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'
I believe in love at first sight and hindsight.
I think I'd much rather have a wooden stick and metallic ball than a real dire wolf on set.
I love 'Doctor Who.'
Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.
I kind of started 'Game of Thrones' as a really young actor and not a lot on my CV.
I always try to pick my parts to be as diverse as I can, and especially when you do 'Game of Thrones' for so many months of the year.
I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.
