Richard Madden

I know people like Jon Snow a lot.

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 went to drama school in Scotland.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

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.

I love Lady Stoneheart!

To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.

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'm lucky to get jobs where I get these amazing film horses that make me look much better than I am.

You learn something new on every film.

'Game of Thrones' couldn't be a movie. There's too much in it. You couldn't do it justice.

I think I'd much rather have a wooden stick and metallic ball than a real dire wolf on set.

I hate all the red carpet stuff. It's weird, because it's part of what's expected of you now.

I love 'Doctor Who.'

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.'

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.'

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 only have an awareness of what I'm trying to achieve as an actor and what my job as the character is to service.

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 didn't really think about wanting to be a prince when I was a kid.

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.

I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it.

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.

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.

I've done a few old-style romantic leads now.

I'd really like to shave my hair off and get a bit more hard-edged.

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.

No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'

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.

There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

I'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.

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 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.

I have such pride in my job.

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.

The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them. It's not easy being known as 'the kid from the TV show.' Not in school it's not.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.

Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

I think often I learn the most from other people's mistakes. If I'm in the audience watching an actor and thinking, 'I don't believe you,' I spend the rest of the play working out why I don't believe them.

I like clothes and fashion. It's a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it's nice when people say: 'He can dress quite well.'

Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.