Kit Harington Quotes

Jeff Bridges is one of those icons that I put on a very high pedestal, so just to get to chill with him off-camera on cold, rainy days was surreal.

- Kit Harington

I have a wild streak, but I like to keep that very much for my friends.

- Kit Harington

There's a huge difference between stage fighting and real sword fighting.

- Kit Harington

My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up. We were comfortable, but I didn't go to Oxbridge, and yet every American interviewer I get says to me, 'You're related to Charles II! Your grandfather was a baronet!' And it's infuriating, because that is a part of my history, but you're trying to turn me into a posh boy, and I'm not.

- Kit Harington

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

- Kit Harington

Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm like, I really don't want him to die,' and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can't play those games.

- Kit Harington

When I was 14, I saw 'Waiting for Godot.' It's one of those plays that if it's done badly is absolutely dire and can put you off acting for life. But I was laughing all the way through it.

- Kit Harington

'How to Train Your Dragon,' the first one, was a film I'd seen prior to being approached for the sequel. I don't often watch family animated movies, but it's one that I loved and thought was really well done: beautifully crafted storytelling.

- Kit Harington

I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.

- Kit Harington

On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

- Kit Harington

I'm very lucky, I've got two very loving parents, still very much together, and always been very supportive.

- Kit Harington

I didn't get into this for fame, I genuinely didn't. I love acting, and I know that's a cliche, but I didn't, really, I was very naive when it came to the whole being recognized thing.

- Kit Harington

With 'Downton Abbey,' you're always stuck in one stately home.

- Kit Harington

I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.

- Kit Harington

I was called Kit from day one; really, I only found out my name was Christopher when I was 11.

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I'm a terrible packer. I don't pack lots and lots because I think I'll wear everything, I pack a lot because I never know what I'm going to need. I always go over the weight limit.

- Kit Harington

There's an unhealthy obsession in America with royalty and the class system.

- Kit Harington

I actually don't do much to my hair. It gets fussed over a lot on projects because there's a lot of it, and it's boy's hair, but as far as me, I tend to let it do what it wants.

- Kit Harington

I wear quite fitted clothing. I don't like wearing baggy stuff.

- Kit Harington

My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged whatever that may be. When I started sharing a keen interest in drama and the theater, instead of steering me away from it, they encouraged me to see plays and think about drama school.

- Kit Harington

There are lots of actors out there who are hugely, hugely talented and haven't got the breaks I've had.

- Kit Harington

I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that.

- Kit Harington

I've always hated my voice. You sound different in your head when you hear it out loud.

- Kit Harington

I love New York; I love the city. It's impossible. It's a theme park of a city, isn't it.

- Kit Harington

I love action. I love doing fight scenes; I always have. I love it.

- Kit Harington

I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.

- Kit Harington

Wearing baggy clothes makes me look shorter. I just don't know anything about fashion. I know what I like wearing. I'm always accused that I wear too much black. I love wearing black.

- Kit Harington

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

- Kit Harington

I find you can lose yourself in an acting sense in a fight far more easily than you can in a dialogue scene, and I love that about it. We try as actors all the time: we strive just to completely sort of lose ourselves in the moment, and we never quite get there, but in a fight, you can do it in seconds; that is what I love about it.

- Kit Harington

The more you fly, the more unsettling it is, because you realize how much more likely it will be for you to crash. I am getting better at it, though.

- Kit Harington

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

- Kit Harington

I just don't know anything about fashion.

- Kit Harington

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.

- Kit Harington

I'm kind of a horse whisperer; I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures; I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.

- Kit Harington

I don't do Twitter because I don't want to talk about myself more than I already have to.

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As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

- Kit Harington

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

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I love going out. I love partying.

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I try not to read the social networks too much. I find that way madness lies.

- Kit Harington

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.

- Kit Harington