Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

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.

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

But with superior morale, with an unwavering, fanatical spirit, everything is possible!

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

Easier to change, than to suffer. Grow out of your childishness.That is all.

I think the greatest way to learn is to learn by someone's example.