Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Harry Lloyd

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actor Harry Lloyd.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Harry Lloyd

Harry Charles Salusbury Lloyd is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Will Scarlet in the 2006 BBC drama Robin Hood, Jeremy Baines in the 2007 Doctor Who episodes "Human Nature" and "The Family of Blood", Viserys Targaryen in the first season of the HBO series Game of Thrones, Peter Quayle in the Starz series Counterpart, Charles Xavier in the third season of the FX series Legion, Bernard Marx in the Peacock series Brave New World, and Viktor in the Netflix series Arcane. He has also appeared on stage, and in films including The Theory of Everything and Anthropoid.

I suppose the things you remember about someone who has died are the funny moments. Those are the ones that stand out.
The whole world of 'Game of Thrones' was realized with such detail, with directors and writers who really geeked out and really loved all the little bits of it.
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good. — © Harry Lloyd
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote it down. Later, when you approach his work as an actor, you notice how sayable the dialogue is.
There's a burgeoning film scene in Romania.
My parents are Polish. I don't know anything about Italian-ness.
I love my little flat in Spitalfields. Lots of actors live out of a suitcase, so it's nice to have a base to come back to.
It's lovely to have a part that requires you to learn something that's also interesting.
Peter Mullan is the least method actor around.
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned in Marshalsea Prison for bad debt, but it was obviously a huge part of him.
If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens.
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: 'No, you don't.'
The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.
My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.
I just don't think any job is worth sacrificing your private life for.
I consider myself straight, but if I met a guy tomorrow and fell in love with him, would I be brave enough to accept that without having to change the way I look at myself?
I want to be an author.
Adult fantasy gets a bad name. You think of Xena - Warrior Princess. If you don't do it expensively, it becomes tacky and you end up just appealing to 45-year-old single men.
There is a whole bunch of great British actors of my age who aren't film stars or theatre actors; they're very much both.
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
If I'm honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason I'm still doing it, and if I'm still doing it in ten years' time, I'm sure I'll find something else.
Part of George R.R. Martin's brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet. — © Harry Lloyd
Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.
My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.
If Im honest, the reason I got into acting is not the reason Im still doing it, and if Im still doing it in ten years time, Im sure Ill find something else.
Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.
When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.
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