The only way to grow is to challenge yourself.
It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.
You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.
Working on camera is a different ballgame in the sense that it's far more intimate work, but the basics and the foundations of being able to create something that isn't necessarily your own instincts - is a character that you have inside your head - whether you're talking about television or film or theater, that still has to be the grounding work.
I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that especially within Game of Thrones, I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.
There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.
No story ever really ends, and I think I know why.
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.
He's a specialist in failure.
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.