Quotes from Kit Harington

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

I love action. I love doing fight scenes; I always have. I love it.

I'm a terrible packer. I don't pack lots and lots because I think I'll wear everything, I pack a lot because I never know what I'm going to need. I always go over the weight limit.

Wearing baggy clothes makes me look shorter. I just don't know anything about fashion. I know what I like wearing. I'm always accused that I wear too much black. I love wearing black.

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.

Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.

I wear quite fitted clothing. I don't like wearing baggy stuff.

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't often watch family animated movies, but it's one that I loved and thought was really well done: beautifully crafted storytelling.

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

I actually don't do much to my hair. It gets fussed over a lot on projects because there's a lot of it, and it's boy's hair, but as far as me, I tend to let it do what it wants.

I have a wild streak, but I like to keep that very much for my friends.

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

I've always hated my voice. You sound different in your head when you hear it out loud.

I love acting and I know that's a cliché, but I didn't really, I was very naïve when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.

I'm kind of a horse whisperer; I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures; I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.

I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.