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" 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. "

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" I actually don't do much to my hair. It gets fussed over a lot on projects because there's a lot of it, and it's boy's hair, but as far as me, I tend to let it do what it wants. "

Kit Harington

Boy

Over

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

" Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Kit Harington

See

Think

" 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 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. "

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

" There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

Kit Harington

Copy

Children

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

" I don't go to work thinking, 'Right, I'm going to be more heart-throbby today.' "

Kit Harington

Right

" 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. "