Top 35 Carice van Houten Quotes

Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable.

I can’t say I’m having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

In my own country, I play light comedies and funny parts.

There doesn’t seem to be a religion in ‘Game of Thrones’ that’s totally peaceful… we haven’t seen any Buddhists.

I don’t know how to play evil.

I pick up on other people’s discomfort.

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

I’m not at all a hero. I’m a wussy.

The khaleesi seems the most fair.

My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.

I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.

I’m completely the opposite of what I play on ‘Game of Thrones.’

Don’t get me wrong: I would not say no to an Oscar!

I’ve never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.

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.

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’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.

If I go to Hollywood, I will have to start all over again – which is fine and makes me humble.

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

Playing evil is just not interesting. I don’t think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they’re doing evil stuff. That’s the scary part.

My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I’ve seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film ‘Annie,’ and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

It’s great to play somebody’s wife, but not all the time. There’s so many other stories to tell.

I don’t believe you can get into somebody’s character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent’s door. I couldn’t even do it. I’m way too insecure and too proud.

I’m a singer and working on my second album. I write and produce. There is so much more that satisfies me. So there’s not just this one ambition to become an American movie star. Because I will never become an American movie star.

It’s not so easy to forgive.

Most directors that I’ve worked with – I’ve worked with before, especially in Holland – and they know that I’m somebody who talks and asks, and talks, and talks, and talks and questions and turns things around. I’m like a little cat, walking around my little nest until I find my place.

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.

On my own, I have very bad posture; I’m clunky.

I think I’m a very intuitive actress.

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I’ve never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

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

I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

I think it’s cool people love to hate me.