It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.

You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.

If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!

There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.

I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.

Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.

My diet - I eat nutritionally-balanced meals. I work out. I do yoga. I love my yoga. I do boxing training because it's fun.

Don’t fight with your enemy’s brains, fight with his heart

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

I love to eat and I love sweets... like chocolate. But I do work out.

Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the form of microbes.

Good things come to those with no expectations.

I go on stage, it's like I'm leading you into battle; you are not all going to be here at the end.

It is a throne of grace that God in Christ is represented to us upon; but yet is is a throne still whereon majesty and glory do reside, and God is always to be considered by us as on a throne.

The BBC is another part of the destruction of Great Britain. The truth is that the BBC doesn't know that it is biased. It thinks that Guardian reading champagne socialists are the norm.

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.