Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

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'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive, and much more difficult to store.

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.

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?

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.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth.

I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.

I promise myself that I would go and do a play every year.

Faith is Feeling Alive In The Heart.

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.

Control puberty?" snorted the bodyguard."If you manage that, you'll be the first.

I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

I want my foundation built, and I want to be strong enough to deal with everything coming my way.

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.