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" When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack. "
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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" I was 15 or 16 when I first saw 'Once Upon A Time In America,' so I was quite young, but I was completely blown away. "
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" Personally, I think fidelity is important. I don't see any point in being together if you're not being honest, having fun together, and respecting one another. Why would you stay in a relationship otherwise? "
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" Horrible things happen all our lives; we all experience loss and death and trauma. Usually, most people, I think, we just get on with it. We don't have a whole soliloquy in the middle of something. "
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" When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them. "
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" When I was first told about 'Game of Thrones,' I didn't know the books, anything. So I read the pilot, and when I got the first script, it was clear the story was about these people and families and a constant battle for power. "
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" I don't necessarily enjoy being at the gym. It's something I have to do, more than something I look forward to doing. But it does enable me to do fun things. "
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" One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself. "
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" My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland. "
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" Everyone's expectation of New York is so big, and then you go, 'Oh, it really is like no other place on Earth!' "
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" I think we all have the capacity of evil in us. "
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" Some of the stuff in Season 3 on 'Game of Thrones' - the amount of mud I had to eat, not intentionally but by accident - was pretty tough. "
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" For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see your father make out with another woman. It's not cool. "
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" It doesn't hurt to be in 'Game of Thrones,' that's for sure, mainly because people actually see your work, and that is great. "
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" There's nothing exceptional about me, but there's something exceptional about Jaime Lannister, and I think that's what's interesting. "
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" As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character. "
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" There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules. "
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" A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain. "
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" I've never understood why you would turn down a great role. "
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" Most people can relate to that whole annoying thing when people think they know who you are. "
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" What's great about 'Game of Thrones' is they change the perspective, the POV, all the time. So you will have one story told by one character and you'll go, 'Oh my God, horrible', and then maybe the season after you have the same story told but from the person you thought was just the most horrible, vile creature. "
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" It's beautiful being out in the wild. "
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" I think the core of Jaime Lannister is actually that final line in the pilot when he says, 'The things I do for love.' He might do horrible things - and they are truly, some of them, horrific. There's no excuses. But he does it out of what he sees as a necessity, out of love. "
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" Usually, on a show like 'Game of Thrones,' you don't have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available. "
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" My ambition has always been to work with English and American actors and directors. Those were the movies that I was watching when I was growing up. "
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" I always feel for the younger cast members in 'Game of Thrones.' They're really clever and smart. "
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" Tina Fey's autobiography is very, very funny and very well written. It's her life story: it's about how she grows up in New York. There's no obvious reason why I should enjoy this - I mean, this is the autobiography of a woman in her early 40s in New York. I'm a guy from a small town in Denmark. "
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" I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time. "
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" I think what's great is that, when HBO commit, they go in all guns blazing. They attract the very best set designers, the whole thing. "
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