What matters most with any regimen, whether it's to lose weight or stop drinking or smoking, is your willingness to seek help and your desire to say 'no more.

I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

Above all things I believe in love.

My heart aches completely, every hour, every day, and only when I'm with you does the pain go away.

Then, one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.

The beautiful thing about it is that no two directors or actors work the same way. You also learn not to be afraid of discussion and conflict.

I want to wear skinny jeans when I'm in my 70s. Why not? Who cares?

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

...as an actor there's nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It's so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

I find politicians so desperately boring. I don't trust them and don't believe in them.

I'm just looking for that moment to drop my Jedi knickers and pull out my real light saber.

Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.

I'm afraid your literary prizes don't give you any jurisdiction in this particular instance, sir.

In the matters of your life don't take orders, take decisions.

The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.

Language is the most beautiful and destructive thing because it allows you to express yourself, but it totally confuses everything.

Your faith will not grow by chance, but by choice.

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.

No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible.

The vision of Christ that thou dost see Is my vision's greatest enemy.