Kit Harington quotes:

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

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

  • 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.

  • There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

  • 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 go to work thinking, 'Right, I'm going to be more heart-throbby today.'

  • You don't want to seem too eager, too romantic - otherwise, it just looks a bit try-hard. But I do think that a first date should be intimate. So I'd choose a nice dinner somewhere cozy, not too crowded, with good wine.

  • 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.

  • 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 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • At drama school, I was always playing the 11-year-old boys.

  • Attention gets you the opposite sex sometimes.

  • Each project changes you a bit.

  • I always love costume, and I'm always heavily involved in how things should look. Or how they should feel really, because that's part of the way I suppose I get into character in some ways. It's a lot about costume.

  • I just don't know anything about fashion.

  • 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 like a good cry every now and then. It releases something. There are times in my life when I'm meant to cry, but I don't actually cry. But then I can be walking down the street and it's been a few months, and things get on top of me - that's when I find myself crying.

  • I like playing dark, broody types.

  • 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.

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

  • I love going out. I love partying.

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

  • I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."

  • Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible.

  • I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

  • 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.

  • It's very difficult to say anything in Icelandic. I can say "takk," which means "thank you." That's about all I learned.

  • I've always been a bit of a self-doubter, I think a lot of actors are. I still am.

  • I've got like a weird bond with horses. 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've inherited the bad poetry genes, but not the inventor genes.

  • Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

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

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

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

  • When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

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

  • You have to look at your blessings, don't you? With Thrones, I have to realize that, whatever happens, and for all the stress and the pressure that goes with it, it's been an extraordinary journey and I know I'll look back later in my life and think, 'That was crazy, that was amazing.' It's something that very, very few people experience, and I love that.

  • You know that thing when you break up with someone and youâ??re walking around the town where you both live and youâ??re just really hoping to see them? You know that youâ??re not supposed to see them, but thereâ??s nothing you want more.

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

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