Top 35 Alfie Allen Quotes

One thing I would say is that I think in any environment that you work in, there’s always going to be one or two people who you don’t like. But there just wasn’t that on ‘Games Of Thrones’. I know it sounds cheesy and cliched, but it was like a big family.

I actually love pressure.

I’m definitely not a bad guy in real life.

For years, my dad’s friend Joe was just my dad’s friend. And it was only when I was 12 or 13 I learned that he was the lead singer of a band called The Clash.

I don’t have any fear of turning 30. But maybe that’s because I know I’m never going to be 30 mentally at any point in my life!

I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I’m just your average bloke.

Big sisters exaggerate.

Although I have fantastic connections, I didn’t know as a child what feeling secure meant.

Acting has never been a thing that me and my dad have talked about. It’s like footballers: when they get together, I bet the last thing they talk about is football.

I do prefer playing baddies because you can push being horrible as far as you want.

Meeting Peter Dinklage was just great.

I saw a psychiatrist when I was younger because I had ADHD, and I had some problems with authority, so I guess I can kind of relate to that in a way. I know what it’s liked to be probed and to be asked questions where people are looking for a certain answer and are trying to pull something out of your answer.

I definitely feel like I had a different upbringing to a lot of other people, but not in a bad – or good – way.

I remember being in St. Lucia and my dad taking me out on a jet ski. I was very young, too young, but, yup, dad does like to break rules.

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

I’m not interested in ‘lovey dovey,’ everything is so great in the world. That doesn’t interest me at all.

Finn Jones, me and him hang out a lot.

I would like to think that I’m always honest with myself and others. I guess that’s what makes me a half-decent actor.

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do – and most of all listen rather than talk.

You can say to actors that you’ve got to be the character and really get into it, but you have to make it realistic by bringing an element of yourself into it.

Once I started to grow up, I realised that my parents are normal people and they can make mistakes.

There wasn’t a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

I’m pretty body-confident after losing weight for ‘Thrones.’

I did have a problem concentrating on anything for more than 10 seconds. I was one of the first kids in the U.K. to go on Ritalin, and my mum hated it, and I hated it.

I just loved going fast. I still enjoy go-karting. I was also good at rugby, and my dad wanted me to be a sportsman, but I never thought I could do sports professionally.

We went to Ibiza, and I was on Ritalin, and, for a kid who couldn’t concentrate, I read a 200-page book on King Arthur, and my mum just hated it. She said it just wasn’t me.

My mum wouldn’t do a film for money. She does it as a passion. That’s why she’s involved in things that are so brilliant. She really cares about what she does.

A lot of people have the misconception that I decided to become an actor when Lily became famous and have accused me of jumping on her bandwagon. But that’s completely untrue.

I’m not an experienced sailor.

It’s great when you see things on a massive scale and you see these huge sets, but it’s not the be-all and end-all – it can be about characters as well.

I didn’t go to drama school, so I didn’t really have many true friends in the business; ‘Game Of Thrones’ has definitely brought me that.

I was never a gym person before ‘Game Of Thrones.’ The idea of it was a bore to me – and it kind of still is – but I had a problem with my knee, so I can’t play sport as much as I’d like to.

When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say ‘on my own’, but I was probably with my oldest sister Sarah, and she would have been 13 or 14 at the time, so she’d have been walking us around. But I got to go places and meet people, and was trusted a lot, without a doubt.

Richard Madden, I loved to work alongside him; he’s a very funny man.

I have no complaints about my childhood.