99 Quotes by Richard Madden

I was at a rough high school where admitting you were an actor didn't go down well.

Robb Stark was a young man not expecting anything, thinking his life is going to be on one path, and then he's pushed. More weight and responsibility get put onto him; more demands are made of him. For me, as an actor, there are parallels to that.

I think I'd much rather have a wooden stick and metallic ball than a real dire wolf on set.

I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.

I think meeting someone like, meeting Sam Shepard, that was someone who was kind of important for me, because I'd read so much of his work and watched him as an actor since I was a kid, then being on set doing a scene with him and thinking, 'This is really surreal.'

To be with Derek Jacobi and Stellan Skarsgard, it's a master class in acting every day.

When you're not in studios, you don't have any luxuries; you can't control the elements, so you have to put up with those extremes.

When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them. It's not easy being known as 'the kid from the TV show.' Not in school it's not.

You have to be delicate with how you can portray characters other people are having a worship over.