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.

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

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.

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.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

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

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

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

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

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

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

I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

Chewing and barking do not make you a dog, you need the patience.

Okay, I have internet but it's limited and here on the web the information is countless.

The ground for taking ignorance to be restrictive of freedom is that it causes people to make choices which they would not have made if they had seen what the realization of their choices involved.

We had a lot of fun together. We really were in sync with each other, a lot.Madisyn Shipman is a great kid.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.