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" I've had a private pilot's license for years and flown all round the U.K. and over to France. "

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" I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. "

" I just hate the idea of being well known. I know that is almost impossible if you're an actor who has done okay, but I've always fought against it. "

" 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. "

" I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that. "

" Theater actors are just tolerated. You have to be a movie star to be a celebrity. "

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

" I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand. "

" I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me. "

" I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money. "

" I see film roles as lovely presents that come along now and again. I feel really lucky and say thank you very much. And if they fly me to L.A., I think, 'God, I must really be doing well.' I've worked with De Niro and Brando and Pacino, and that's made me feel very lucky. But the films have never meant a lot to me. "

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

" Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned. "

" When I was doing 'Tales from Hollywood' at the National, I was invited to dinner by the choreographer, Kenneth MacMillan. He told me I had the heart of a dancer and asked me if I'd like to come on at the end of 'Romeo and Juliet' as a friar. I said I'd love to, but sadly, MacMillan died shortly after. "

" I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things. "

" There are more important ways of earning a living, aren't there? Like being a neurosurgeon. But some plays are very important, aren't they? "

" I have been in five Harry Potter films and never read a 'Harry Potter' book. If you are an actor, all you have is the script you are given. If you read the book, you might get disappointed about what's been left out. "

" The theatre starts every night at half past seven, and I like the rhythm of going to the theatre, parking the car, going to the stage door; I've grown up with all of that. I'd love to do more theatre - I mean, I shouldn't be telling the world that I can't remember lines any more, but I find it more and more difficult, so I don't know. "

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

" There were no spells at my school, just a smack in the mouth. "

" People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up. "

" Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me. "

" Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy. "

" 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. Doesn't say much for acting, does it? "

" Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it? "

" You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre's going to finish me off. "

" I want to be good all the time, so I feel anxious. But if you weren't like that, you'd be dead, wouldn't you? If you went out happy down the road, la la la. I've never been like that. I don't want to be. "

" I've played quite a lot of crooks and killers, and that's quite interesting. Then Dumbledore is the complete opposite, isn't he? He's a nice old man. "

" Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. "

" Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff. "

" I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. "