"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."

"I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them."

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

"A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf."

"Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do."

"Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while."

"We're starting to push the envelope in terms of the expectations, and you can also have your own style, personality and sense of humor, because now we're allowed to."

"I was diagnosed with everything from schizophrenia to multiple personality disorder."