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

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

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

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

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.

Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

I can see the caravanserai, like a mirage in the distance. The heat hums. I thought I saw water. What would you have on these trade winds for your comfort?

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Return on Energy!

Somebody accused us of hiring him and putting him there. He was a classic.

Political parties are like poets, born, not made.

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

I'm happy as a dog with two dicks

There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.