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" My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line. "

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" England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically. "

" 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. "

" Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. "

" I am the character you are not supposed to like. "

" There's a voice inside you that tells you what you should do. "

" Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day. "

" All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening. "

" Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over. "

" A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be. "

" Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive. "

" The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda. "

" Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility. "

" I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola. "

" Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world. "

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" 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. "

" I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision. "

" And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. "

" On film you put all your energies into a single glance. "

" If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. "

" Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes. "

" If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine. "

" The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible. Or, what's impossible? What's a fantasy? "

" I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom. "

" Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. "