Top 40 Richard Madden Quotes

My best friend was really cool, and she went to a youth theatre in Paisley, so I thought maybe that’s the way to do it. I went along, and I immediately found something I was passionate about and really enjoyed.

I’m lucky to get jobs where I get these amazing film horses that make me look much better than I am.

It’s nice to have recognition for doing a good job, but at the end of the day, I’m just an actor and I’m doing my job and I’m always trying to get better at doing that job.

‘Game of Thrones’ couldn’t be a movie. There’s too much in it. You couldn’t do it justice.

I’m a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

I try to live honestly in every aspect of my life, which can make things a bit more complicated, right?

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don’t think it gets better than that.

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn’t go to those classes in drama school. I was like, ‘I don’t need that; I’ll never be dancing in anything.’

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn’t go down well.

To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it’s a master class in acting every day.

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 meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I’d read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, ‘This is really surreal.’

Good people never survive on ‘Game of Thrones.’ That’s the problem.

I’m dying to do something sci-fi! I would love to be on a spaceship and firing a laser gun! Something like that would be really awesome. Or something with dinosaurs. Or preferably both at once.

I have two sisters, so we watched all of the Disney films. I think I still know the lyrics to them all.

I need to kind of get a job that’s going to take me to, like, Hawaii or Rio or something, right? Maybe I need to make better decisions with that.

There’s no background of creativity in my family; there are no actors or musicians.

I’m an actor and my job is to interpret.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

I always try to pick my parts to be as diverse as I can, and especially when you do ‘Game of Thrones’ for so many months of the year.

That’s a really strange, unique position to be in – royalty is where you have no choice over what your duties are.

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them.

Bill Haskell was real.

I only have an awareness of what I’m trying to achieve as an actor and what my job as the character is to service.

I have such pride in my job.

I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.

When you’re not in studios, you don’t have any luxuries; you can’t control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.

I love ‘Doctor Who.’

I love Jon Snow’s character.

I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.

I think I’d much rather have a wooden stick and metallic ball than a real dire wolf on set.

I don’t find it hard to stay humble.

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.

Typically in ‘Game of Thrones,’ people who are honest and just and do things for the right reasons tend not to survive.

I try to be outdoors as much as I can.

When I’m not working, I like to be comfortable. I do like to dress smart, but comfort is important.

I’ve watched ‘Doctor Who’ since I was a kid. I loved it, and I still love it. I can geek out about it, like when I go to set and see the TARDIS.