Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

You're always being cast for what you've been in last.

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time.

I think I feel more like you're an actor for hire and you take the jobs you want to take, obviously, and some pay well and some don't pay well at all but you go on a gut feeling and it's all a big adventure.

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

I have grown up loving Shakespeare.