Actor Quotes

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

I dabbled a little bit in acting in high school, and then I forgot about it completely. And then at about 25 I went to a class. I don't think anybody in my family thought it was an intelligent choice. I don't think anybody thought I'd succeed, which is understandable. I think they were just happy th

Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

All writers are vampires.

Actors will say, 'My character wouldn't say that.' Who said it was your character?

I lost 30 pounds to play my character in 'The Mexican', but people don't take to skinny mafia men, and I don't feel right when I'm thin.

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

Yeah, I like causing trouble. It's the teddy boy in me. I used to be a teddy boy. Feeling slightly inferior and wanting to cause a bit of bother and get some action going on in the room rather than get bored stiff.

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.

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

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

Richard was in heavy, heavy costume, he could hardly sit, you know, and I turned up and they put me in two layers of silk, so I played him much lighter - you know, floating around in a pair of slippers, a bit of a hippy.

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I've always tried to be an actor who... I just plod on and try to keep my mouth shut, mind my own business. I find the whole thing about people's lives... I can't understand it. I'm always astonished that people want to know anything about me.

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

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.

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

I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play.

I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them.

I just play him as myself, I don't ease myself into any role really. I stick a beard on and play me.

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.

I am a theatre actor, but the last ten years I've taken parts in movies because it keeps me in money.

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

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

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.