Quotes from Kit Harington

I love going out. I love partying.

It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.

I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.

I find you can lose yourself in an acting sense in a fight far more easily than you can in a dialogue scene, and I love that about it. We try as actors all the time: we strive just to completely sort of lose ourselves in the moment, and we never quite get there, but in a fight, you can do it in seconds; that is what I love about it.

The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.

I was called Kit from day one; really, I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.

I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around

I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.

I don't do Twitter because I don't want to talk about myself more than I already have to.

My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged whatever that may be. When I started sharing a keen interest in drama and the theater, instead of steering me away from it, they encouraged me to see plays and think about drama school.

The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.

I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.

With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm like, I really don't want him to die,' and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can't play those games.