Zitat des Tages von Richard Madden:
I didn't really think about wanting to be a prince when I was a kid.
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.
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 only have an awareness of what I'm trying to achieve as an actor and what my job as the character is to service.
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.
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'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it.
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 was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.
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 believe in love at first sight and hindsight.
The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.
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.
I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?
I'd really like to shave my hair off and get a bit more hard-edged.
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 was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.
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 love Jon Snow's character.
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.
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 was a nervous kid, not great socially.
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.'
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 have such pride in my job.
I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.
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'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.
Typically in 'Game of Thrones,' people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.
You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.
I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.
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 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.
There's no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.
I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.
Good people never survive on 'Game of Thrones.' That's the problem.