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

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.

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.

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

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

When you're smaller and leaner, you're not going to have that large a presence throughout the world.

Taken everything I've got, all I've got's this sunny afternoon.

Ive always believed very, very strongly that the way you treat people is more important than anything, professionally or otherwise.

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.