Quotes from Tom Payne

The war we must must win is fought within.

There aren't that many actors with hair like this. And Amazon are casting Aragorn and they're doing Interview with the Vampire' on Hulu, so there's all these good jobs.

I was quite discerning the first year and when I was doing 'The Vampire Diaries' thing I was like, 'I'm really not sure if I want to do this; it's this whole teen thing, which I've done in England.' My agent was like, 'Don't be silly, you'll make great money and everything.' But I wasn't sure.

Jockeys - it's so difficult It's completely insane. You're balancing on the balls of your feet on the spine of a horse and it's like you're piloting a missile It's amazing. I think jockeys are stunt men.

If you want to succeed, you have to take the necessary risks and the occasional leap in the dark.

I had been working in England since 2005 when I left drama school.

I'm not really a dreamer, but I do believe you can do anything you want to do and make a success of it.

I think one of the reasons why The Walking Dead' has been such a successful show is that Andrew Lincoln led that show so incredibly well, from the front, and treated everyone so amazingly, behind the scenes and in public.