I like a good cry every now and then. It releases something. There are times in my life when I'm meant to cry, but I don't actually cry. But then I can be walking down the street and it's been a few months, and things get on top of me - that's when I find myself crying.

I went to school, and I remember that you had to do these tests to find out what set you're in - how clever you are. I put down "Kit Harington," and they looked at me like I was completely stupid, and they said, "No, you're Christopher Harington, I'm afraid." It was only then I learnt my actual name. That was kind of a bizarre existential crisis for an 11-year-old to have, but in the end I always stuck with Kit, because I felt that's who I was. I'm not really a "Chris."

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

Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.

Attention gets you the opposite sex sometimes.

It's very difficult to say anything in Icelandic. I can say "takk," which means "thank you." That's about all I learned.

I kind of weirdly fell into being an action hero...I have no f- idea how that happened. You have to remind people that you want to act rather than just run around