“I’ve got kids, goats. My wife always wanted a donkey, so I bought her one.”

I’m kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I’ll just learn it to the absolute max.

Both my parents were painters.

I’ve led a career of having to take work to see my family, over picking and choosing, instead of ‘I need food on the table and I don’t know how I’m going to pay the mortgage.’

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.

When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn’t believe it was happening. I had to have that role.

I think a man needs to be a man. To hold a woman the way she wants to be held. Just do whatever your woman wants, and you’ll be fine.

I don’t mind standing up for what I believe in.

My kids are my greatest piece of art.

You paint something, and it’s yours. It’s your heart up on the wall.

For ‘Conan,’ I had to eat boiled chicken breast and work out all the time and basically eat like a bird every two hours and stay ripped.

Whenever I wake up, I’m up. I don’t lie there like an idiot. I get up, run up a hill, get some exercise, and have some time with my thoughts.

Game of Thrones’ is the greatest thing I’ve ever been a part of.

Iowa is an amazing place. But I didn’t have much race around me. I was definitely not like everyone there.

I couldn’t get a job to save my life. That’s why I wrote ‘Road to Paloma.’ That got into Sundance and got into that scene, and that’s how I got the role in ‘The Red Road.’

I’m a big wuss, and not the king in the least. My wife is.

I told my wife, ‘One woman, lots of toys!’

We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.

Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up.

I’ve bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p.

I went into a restaurant one night and ordered lobster, and the waiter brought me one with a claw missing.

Whatever Iranian people have bought, they have bought in the black market.

I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

And affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.