Kit Harington

“I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.”

“We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.”

“Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm like, I really don't want him to die,' and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can't play those games.”

“I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.”

“Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.”

“The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.”

“My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged whatever that may be. When I started sharing a keen interest in drama and the theater, instead of steering me away from it, they encouraged me to see plays and think about drama school.”

“Wearing baggy clothes makes me look shorter. I just don't know anything about fashion. I know what I like wearing. I'm always accused that I wear too much black. I love wearing black.”

“When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.”

“I'm kind of a horse whisperer; I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures; I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.”

“I love action. I love doing fight scenes; I always have. I love it.”

“The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.”

“I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.”

“I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.”

“My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.”

“I don't do Twitter because I don't want to talk about myself more than I already have to.”

“As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.”

“I just don't know anything about fashion.”

“I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.”

“With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.”