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" When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. "

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" I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. "

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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'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do. "

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" I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed. "

" 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. "

" I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research. "

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

" 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. "

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