Quotes

I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break.

Losing my teeth didn't impede my acting, but it was a constant worry and meant I was never completely relaxed.

I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.

I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked out along the way. It happened so frequently that I can't even remember where I lost most of them.

Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around the Highlands, because it is a very magical place.

I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.

I think HBO seems to have an extraordinary clever knack of catching the pulse of its audience. It really, really knows its audience.

[on Jeor Mormont] I didn't read the books when I took the part. But I'm a fanatical fly fisherman, and I go over to my great friend in Washington state in America, and we fish for steelhead out there. Now Beau, my friend, is a real redneck. He doesn't read anything and his writing is awful. Anyway, when I said I'd do this series, he bought the books. I don't know how he did it, but he sat down and he read all of them. I made time to go over and see him, and we'd be fishing away, and he'd say: 'Well, James, this has happened and that's happened and you're still alive, kid.' I'd say: 'Oh, good, good.' Then one day he said: 'James, they're drinking beer out of your skull.' So my death wasn't exactly a surprise.