Pilou Asbaek Quotes

No one in safe in 'Game of Thrones.'

You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'

One thing 'Game of Thrones' has taught us all is to guard against too much emotional investment.

No one was safe in the Viking age. You could die from any cause at any time. It's a brutal time and a brutal environment.

See how fortune deludes us, and that which we put carefully into her hands, she either breaks or lets it fall from her hands, or causes it to be removed by the violence of another, or suffocates and poisons, or taints with suspicion, fear and jealousy to the great hurt and ruin of the possessor.

He that's secure is not safe.

The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.

On TV, you never know where it's going. They may even lie to you about where it's going. You never really know because the scripts come in every couple of weeks or so.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like the beginning of George R. R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones', where you're Ned Stark, and you know that one of your friends has been murdered, and you go to the capital city and you have to navigate this web of court intrigue.

It's very real, the narrow line between a night danced away and the potential of death around the corner.

Pray that we can come out alive.

It's a kind of Russian roulette.

Being part of 'Game of Thrones,' you're always expecting your character to die. You're not mentally preparing yourself for a very long haul.

'Scandal' is great because it's intriguing and sexy, and it has a lot of play with secondary characters in situations, lots of drama.

Life is dangerous. There are no guarantees.

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

What I love is that 'Game of Thrones' is always up for surprises.

'Game of Thrones' is fundamentally based on a Machiavellian, almost Jacobean, idea of power and intrigue.

The only safety is in the middle of total misunderstanding and deception.

If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

The world is a dangerous place to live

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn't a minefield is the place they make the mines.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.