Quotes from Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.

When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.

There are so many things to do in New York. I try to get to the theater and see some plays. I have a bicycle over here, and I ride around New York.

I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away.

I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.

I like to be comfortable. If I go out, if it's a premiere, I'll put on a suit and look nice. I like Hugo Boss for that.

When I was first told about 'Game of Thrones,' I didn't know the books, anything. So I read the pilot, and when I got the first script, it was clear the story was about these people and families and a constant battle for power.

I think the core of Jaime Lannister is actually that final line in the pilot when he says, 'The things I do for love.' He might do horrible things - and they are truly, some of them, horrific. There's no excuses. But he does it out of what he sees as a necessity, out of love.

I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.

I would be very wrong to charge anyone to watch me dance or sing.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn't come true.

One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.

The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them.

There's a recent film, the Swedish movie 'Force Majeure.' I just thought it was brilliant.

I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.

I love to go into John Varvatos and look at the beautiful leather jackets. They're beautiful and soft. I try them on, and then I look at the price tag and go and pick up a t-shirt. It's just the way I am.

I haven't really got any hidden talents.

You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds.

For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see your father make out with another woman. It's not cool.

Still, to this day, I can't run on the treadmill. Why not just run outside? I never understood it.

I've never heard of the wife looking up the mistress to become friends, but I like it.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

Divorce is always terrible, but I haven't met anyone who went through it and isn't happier now.