Carice van Houten

“My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.”

“I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. There are moments I feel like 99 percent of the people who write stuff are the sweetest people, and then one crazy guy or girl spoils the whole thing.”

“I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.”

“Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.”

“In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.”

“On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.”

“I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.”

“When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.”

“I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.”

“Don't get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!”

“For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.”

“American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.”

“I have some wigs at home just for fun. Throughout my years, my hair has been treated in a not very nice way, so I have to be careful.”

“The khaleesi seems the most fair.”

“I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.”

“I'm a workaholic.”

“I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.”

“It's not so easy to forgive.”

“It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.”

“My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.”