I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties.

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.