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- How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on…
- It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books.…
- I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses,…
- I still don't have a publicist. If I'm in a film, you have an obligation to promote it, I'll do as much as I can.
- People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and…
- Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a…
- Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On…
- But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
- I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.
- I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and…
- Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give…
- You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
- Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
- My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning,…
- I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
- Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away…
- You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry…
- You take what you know, and you put it through your own prism. If I play characters that break down or cry, it's Gary Oldman…
- And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some…
- And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a…
- I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You…
- It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you…
- People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an…
- That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together,…
- The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition.…
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide