A biography for Richard Maddenhasn’t been written yet.
“If ever anyone comes up to me, it's usually like, 'You look really like that guy on that show.' And you're like, 'Really?' And they're like, 'Yeah. Cool. See you later.' And you're like, 'Cool, man.'”
“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'll keep doing the things I don't know if I'm good enough to do.”
“Bill Haskell was real.”
“You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.”
“I don't find it hard to stay humble.”
“I'm lucky to get jobs where I get these amazing film horses that make me look much better than I am.”
“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 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.”
“I can see how child stars can be thrown off-kilter.”
“I kind of started 'Game of Thrones' as a really young actor and not a lot on my CV.”
“I just love to be able to actually build a character.”
“I'm not naturally a gifted dancer, and I don't enjoy it.”
“For 'Cinderella,' I did six weeks of those interviews, where you get asked the same eight questions. If you're not capable of doing that gracefully, then don't do it.”
“You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.”
“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 thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.”
“'Game of Thrones' couldn't be a movie. There's too much in it. You couldn't do it justice.”
“That's a really strange, unique position to be in - royalty is where you have no choice over what your duties are.”
“I believe in love at first sight and hindsight.”