- Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it’s being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don’t they?
- There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don’t know what I am talking about.
- I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.
- For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It’s a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It’s the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.
- A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
- I’m very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There’s nothing so beautiful.
- Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.
- There’s no subtext in Harry Potter really; it’s all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it’s a magic spell. It’s quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.
- Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.
- I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I’d rather get parts I can’t play.
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