- I wear quite fitted clothing. I don't like wearing baggy stuff.
- I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.
- I love going out. I love partying.
- I just don't know anything about fashion.
- The best people to have power are the ones who don't want it.
- Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.
- There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.
- There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.
- Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
- I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.
- You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.
- [was it worth getting a six-pack for Pompeii] Yes! Because what happens now is that I've got my top off in this movie and that's what everyone thinks I look like underneath all the time. So it quite paid of actually. It's a few months of pain and a lifetime of people thinking you look like that normally.
- [on how he got his six-pack for the movie Pomeii] I've never had a lot of body fat on me, and that's all a six-pack is. Everyone's got a six-pack underneath, the difference is whether you have fat that covers it or not. I've always had low body fat but for this movie, I had to train a hell of a lot to get my six-pack to a place where it looked great on the screen so it was a big training regime. But I wanted to get it because when you are playing a gladiator, you want to look like you can fight and kill people.
- [on being a Harry Potter fan and believing the Sorting Hat would place him in Gryffindor] No one wants to be in Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw is boring, Slytherin is full of psychos as people know.
- [Does anyone ever call you Christopher?] Very occasionally. When I'm applying for a new passport, or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.
- [on watching Sophie Turner grow up] It's crazy going from having this 13-year-old girl that you feel protective over, who's sweet and innocent and keeps running up to you and telling you not to smoke, and then watching (her) grow over the years into a fascinating, intelligent, incredibly funny and witty young woman.
- [2014, behind the scenes of Game of Thrones (2011) after having left his glasses in his hotel room] I'm doing a sword fight, and I'm completely blind.
- [Are there any other things you have a secret passion for or that you're a secret expert about?] Harry Potter. I'm pretty good with Harry Potter.
- When someone comes near me with a syringe, I literally, I pass out... I can't stand it. I go in very calm and collected to the doctor and say, 'By the way, just so you know, I will pass out when you come near me with that syringe.' He does and I go (faint)... I hate spiders, I'm terrified, terrified... I'm just waiting for them to write scenes in Game of Thrones (2011) of like, spiders crawling over (me), and surgery with syringes.
- [on one of his most embarrassing celebrity encounters] I once asked Stevie Wonder if he'd seen the show [Game of Thrones (2011)]... Luckily he couldn't see my face! He said, 'No, man!'
- I was also thinking that I was just going to get a dire wolf as a tattoo on my arm but I wasn't sure because I don't have any other tattoos and I'm not really a tattoo person.
- [on Battle of the Bastards (2016)] I actually did punch Iwan Iwan Rheon in the face, twice, by accident, which he took really well. He was really nice about it. I had to buy him a pint after that one.
- To see them all grow from little kids who'd come and badger me, Alfie [Allen], and Richard [Madden] when we were smoking - they'd come and tell us not to smoke. Then, as the years went by, I caught Sophie [Turner] or Maisie [Williams] having a cigarette at fifteen years old, and I'm like, 'Ah, I see!'
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