I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
Parts win prizes, not actors.
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there. They say 'yes' to things; not like the endless 'nos' and 'hrrumphs' you get in England!
From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.
You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.
Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.
My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.
In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.
I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.
When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.
