Michael McElhatton Quotes

Michael McElhatton

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 12, 1963

Roose is a very cold, pragmatic guy, and he's a survivor. He makes choices based on that, and friendship goes out the window.

Michael McElhatton

The Red Wedding was an amazing experience I'll never forget. We rehearsed it like a play over one whole day, and then shot it over five days.

Michael McElhatton

That's what I love about death on 'Game of Thrones.' Nobody has dying speeches. Nobody has anything like that. Once you're gone, you're gone.

Michael McElhatton

You don't always get to send your regards, or anything. You're just gone. That's the way it is. It's shocking and it's over and you're gone. That's the way you hear about people, isn't it? You just hear, 'They're gone. They're dead. You'll never see them again.'

Michael McElhatton

There isn't any actor or anybody involved in 'Game of Thrones' who is bigger than the show.

Michael McElhatton

TV doesn't, in general, date very well.

Michael McElhatton

I like Roose. He was very good to me. Look, how can you remember Roose Bolton? He was a cold, callous, heartless man. He was a good baddie, I think, and there was a lot of great sparring with Ramsay in those scenes.

Michael McElhatton

You just never know how an audience is going to react.

Michael McElhatton

I actually don't know the legality of inheritance in George R.R. Martin's world.

Michael McElhatton

That's what you want to do as an actor and as an artist: move an audience.

Michael McElhatton

We've all seen so many plays where there's brilliant acting and suddenly there's so many dreadful punches that it takes you out of the moment, or somebody does some bit of violence that jars.

Michael McElhatton

There are obviously a multitude of brutal things that happen on 'Game of Thrones,' and the press or social media tend to latch on to particular things, don't they?

Michael McElhatton

One of the great achievements of 'Game of Thrones' is that everybody knows at least 10 characters are going to die every year, and yet it is always a shock when they do die.

Michael McElhatton

After 'Paths to Freedom,' I met some people who used to teach drama in Mountjoy and they said that the prisoners loved 'Rats.' We went back to Mountjoy to research this film and the governor was showing us around and he introduced us to a few prisoners.

Michael McElhatton

I was 20, naive and foolish. I spent a year auditioning for various drama schools but RADA was the one I liked most.

Michael McElhatton