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" I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that. "

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" I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations. "

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" I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. "

" I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut. "

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" I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai. "

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" I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there. "

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" One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor. "

" He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive. "

" Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself. "

" I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. "