Richard Madden Quotations

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 believe in love at first sight and hindsight.

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

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.

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.

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.

Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.

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 try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

It's nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I'm just an actor and I'm doing my job and I'm always trying to get better at doing that job.

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

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

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

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

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

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 can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter.

I don't find it hard to stay humble.

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

I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.

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

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

No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

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 was a nervous kid, not great socially.

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

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

I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.

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.'

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

When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.

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.

You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.

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'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 try to be outdoors as much as I can.

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

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 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 know people like Jon Snow a lot.

I kind of started 'Game of Thrones' as a really young actor and not a lot on my CV.

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

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.

I like to try to change things up a bit in the way that actors such as Philip Seymour Hoffman or Michael Fassbender did and do.

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 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.'

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

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.

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.

Cinderella could not be more wonderful, as a woman. You're with her, the whole film. I had to create a guy that was worthy of her affections, and that was difficult.

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.

You have to throw yourself into a situation of trust with these things, especially that first day when you don't know someone and you're on a massive Disney Hollywood movie set.

I trained three or four days a week for two and a half months, before they'd even let me near the real dress. And I destroyed two practice dresses completely. They were just ripped to shreds. They looked like cats had gotten a hold of them.

I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it. I didn't go to any of those classes in drama school 'cause I was like, "I'm not going to dance. I don't need to learn to dance." I regret that.

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.

I didn't get dizzy, but I love working with horses.

I think its 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.