Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.Collection: Architecture
My mum was a librarian, and my dad worked in Greenland.Collection: Dad
Divorce is always terrible, but I haven't met anyone who went through it and isn't happier now.
I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.
You can be as good an actor as you want but, if your accent is too strong, it's going to limit you.
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?
I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
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.
There's nothing exceptional about me, but there's something exceptional about Jaime Lannister, and I think that's what's interesting.
There's a recent film, the Swedish movie 'Force Majeure.' I just thought it was brilliant.
Fart jokes still work for me.
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.
When I was a kid I was always afraid of small dogs, because they always seemed like the ones that would attack.
Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.
If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.
I like to be comfortable.
I think we all have the capacity of evil in us.
I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many.
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.
I'm a fan of great storytelling.
There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.
As an actor, secrets and obstacles fuel the character.
What I love about acting is that you are exposed to so many different things. Horse-riding, sailing, travelling to amazing places.
I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.
I'm a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan; I would be really annoyed if anyone told me anything about what was going to happen in the last eight episodes.
I love political dramas. I love good story-telling.
The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.
The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.
I've never understood why you would turn down a great role.
You always dream of being part of a show that reaches and thrills an audience.
A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.
One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.
Most female actresses will have a very difficult time being made unattractive.
All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.
It's beautiful being out in the wild.
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.
I did a network show in the U.S. before, and I loved it, but you have eight days to shoot an episode, and it's just a ridiculous pace.
Most of us have been in that situation where you've been falling in love with somebody who didn't feel the same way. It's not a nice situation.
Usually, on a show like 'Game of Thrones,' you don't have much time to rehearse; a lot of the sets are not available.
When someone you love is in pain, you want to do anything to comfort them.
I always wanted to be an actor, but I just never told anyone. I had this superstition that if I said it out loud, it wouldn't come true.
I love team sports.
You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds.
I like to read everything, really, especially autobiographies.
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.
I can't imagine life without my wife, but I don't think you should get a prize for staying together a long time.
I love skiing.
I work a lot abroad and have the most wonderful family and kids, but being away, you do miss out sometimes. I really hope I won't regret the choices in the future.
I haven't really got any hidden talents.
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.