I think once you've allocated an actor to the role that the character will evolve slightly.

You have to treat yourself. Life is too short to deprive yourself of things.

If I have got a feeling or emotion, I just express it as it comes. I am not good at filtering!

There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.

In terms of my career and stuff, Game of Thrones has just been such a blessing because people really love the show.

Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.

My diet - I eat nutritionally-balanced meals. I work out. I do yoga. I love my yoga. I do boxing training because it's fun.

It is so great to go to a casting director and have them wanting to talk about the show that you are in. It's such a great icebreaker. It just makes the environment so much more relaxed.

...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress.

All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society

Success is the byproduct of desires, purpose-oriented actions, and persistence.

The only one I want, the only one I'll ever want, is you.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief.

All love is unrequited. All of it.

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.

A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it