When You Get To A Certain Age,

Because [writers] Dan Weiss And David Benioff Have Done Such A Great Job In Adapting Them, That's What We Work With. It Serves No Purpose To Anybody For Actors To Come Onto A Set With A Well-thumbed Copy Of The Source Material And Start Querying Why This Or That Line Has Been Left Out Of The Script. It's Probably Been Left Out For A Good Reason.

You Have To Be Selfish To Be An Actor.

A Car To Pick Me Up Every Day, A Chair With My Name On It, Everybody Being Very Polite... What Can You Do Except Sit Back And Watch It All, Try To Take It All In?

You Have To Attempt To Be Objective About Yourself.

Power Is Always A Corrupting Influence. In This Mythical Time - Let's Call It Medieval, Feudal - People In Power Are Dictatorial And Don't Want Their Positions Of Power To Be Threatened.