Emilia Clarke

“Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.”

“Croatia has been glorious - it's so beautiful, and I want to go back as often as I can.”

“Being a single girl in New York... it's what you should be doing in your twenties!”

“My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, 'OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what it's like.' I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing 'Memory.' I was terrible. Terrible.”

“If you spend too much time wondering what you're going to feel like in year five, you're not going to feel anything in year one.”

“A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?”

“When I'm on stage, I feel very much at home - within a theater, within an ensemble - so this entire process is something I feel very attuned with.”

“After my last audition for 'Game of Thrones,' they said, 'Congratulations, princess.' I was like, 'Bye-bye, call centre.'”

“Never in a million years did I think 'Game of Thrones' was going to take off like it did.”

“I don't get much studio stuff. I'm usually on location, and I know that some people think that acting is so glamorous, but believe me, it's not!”

“I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'”

“I do love singing. I wouldn't say I'm any good, but I definitely love it - especially jazz singing.”

“Living in London as a student is tough. And my heart goes out to every single drama student in London because, as an actor, it's a creative process that you are taking on, and if you don't get to do it every day, it hurts.”

“I grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.”

“I learned more doing 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' than I did during three years at drama school.”

“Personally, I'd like as many children as I can pop out, I reckon.”

“You come from a happy family; you want to create a happy family.”

“I wear tinted moisturized since, on the stage, we tend to wear such heavy stage makeup.”

“I'd give my right arm to be, like, a random extra on 'Girls,' just to walk past one of the scenarios. I'd love that more than anything.”

“I looked around one stage school when I was maybe nine. It just scared the bejesus out of me. I was incredibly open, and the girls seemed fierce and determined.”