"I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?"
"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 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."
"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 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'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too."
"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."
"Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive."
"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."
"I'm an actor and my job is to interpret."
"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."
"When I'm not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important."
"You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one."
"I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York."
"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 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 love Jon Snow's character."
"I was a nervous kid, not great socially."
"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 can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter."
"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."
"Bill Haskell was real."
"You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over."
"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."
"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.'"
