When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

When a show communicates on such a vast level internationally, you know, and philosophizes about power, gender politics, and crimes against humanity, which Game of Thrones deals with all those things, then I'm just grateful that it reinstates my faith that art can be life applicable.

I've been a member of some good gyms in the past. I love a good spinning class; I love a good aerobics class.

When you play a real person, you feel a sense of responsibility that obviously you don't feel when you're playing a fictional character.

As an actor, your text is your bible, so you're not making a documentary, but you still have to follow the choices made by your writer.

We're getting caught up with labels: "Nudity: bad." It's not about "nudity: bad." It's about gratuitous oversexualization of children; it's complicated.

For me, the sexiest men don't know they're drop-dead gorgeous. Not that I'd ever rule out a pot-bellied plumber in the right circumstances.