❖ 30 Days of Game of Thrones/ASOIAF
→ Day 18 | Your favorite book: A DANCE WITH DRAGONS
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,” said Jojen. “The man who never reads lives only one.”
✿ 30 days of Emma Watson | Day 6: A various movie premiere Emma attended in 2011
→ My Week with Marilyn - London Premiere
Top 35 Favorite Actors (in no order) || 19. Viggo Mortensen
“I’d like to, when it’s all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of. I don’t just want to look back and say, ‘I was on x number of magazines.’ As far as money goes, there’s a saying in Denmark: ‘Your last suit doesn’t have any pockets.’ You can’t take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?”
Top 35 Favorite Actors (in no order) || 20. Donald Sutherland
“I was up for a great part but they told me: “Sorry, you’re the best actor but this part calls for a guy-next-door type. You don’t look as if you’ve ever lived next door to anyone.”
Top 35 Favorite Actors (in no order) || 21. Vittorio Gassman
“Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.”
Top 35 Favorite Actors (in no order) || 22. Daniel Day-Lewis
On disengaging from a character after filming: “There’s a terrible sadness. The last day of shooting is surreal. Your mind, your body, your spirit are not in any way prepared to accept that this experience is coming to an end. In the months that follow the finish of a film, you feel profound emptiness. You’ve devoted so much of your time to unleashing, in an unconscious way, some sort of spiritual turmoil, and even if it’s uncomfortable, no part of you wishes to leave that character behind. The sense of bereavement is such that it can take years before you can put it to rest.”
Top 35 Favorite Actors (in no order) || 23. Humphrey Bogart
“Acting is like sex: you either do it and don’t talk about it, or you talk about it and don’t do it. That’s why I’m always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.”
Top 35 Favorite Actors (in no order) || 24. Paul Bettany
“The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those who’d choose Paul McCartney … After The Beatles came back from India, Lennon wrote “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” and McCartney wrote “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”. End of argument.”
“… reading to both my kids has always been important. My wife, Jennifer, and I read to them every night. It’s the most delicious time of the day when your child is all sleepy and cuddly and they get to snuggle up and you read them a bedtime story. It’s the bit of parenting that makes up for when they’re screaming and shouting at you.”
Top 35 Favorite Actors (in no order) || 25. Leonardo DiCaprio
On whether there are any aspects of fame he dislikes: “You kidding? I feel very fortunate. A lot of people would love to be in my position. There are so many people out there who are suffering trillions of times more than I could ever suffer, and would love to be me. I am a lucky little bastard.”
❖ 30 Days of Game of Thrones/ASOIAF
→ Day 16 | Your Game of Thrones dreamcast before GOT was even an option for the HBO network:
Gerard Butler as Ned Stark
Saffron Burrows as Catelyn Stark
Jason Lewis as Jaime Lannister
Tricia Helfer as Cersei Lannister
