Quotes from Richard Madden

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

I played Romeo when I was younger, and I think I did a couple kind Romeo-like parts after that, and I kind of went, 'I mustn't do this again. I must always choose something that I don't know if I'm a good enough actor to play.'

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

I went to drama school in Scotland.

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

I'd really like to shave my hair off and get a bit more hard-edged.

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.

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 like clothes and fashion. It's a hobby for me and I really enjoy being part of it, so it's nice when people say: 'He can dress quite well.'

Bill Haskell was real.

I love doing television; it's such a brilliant way to tell a story over six hours rather over the two hours of doing a movie.

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

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 didn't really think about wanting to be a prince when I was a kid.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view, and these characters can convince you that what they're doing is right. But they're only showing you a bit of the picture, and when you see it from another character's point of view you may switch allegiances.

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

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.