I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

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.

Children must be taught that they are worth being heard, being saved and being loved.

The Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act will help ensure that all families, regardless of their income, can protect their children from the lifelong health impacts of lead poisoning.

I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world.

Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

I've always had a tomboy look.

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.