I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.

The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying what I know about them to every single scene. That's what it can be broken down to.

Somebody I love and have a huge amount of respect for once told me something that, to this day, I don't really think I understand. It was probably toward the end of Harry Potter, and they were talking to me about afterwards and that kind of stuff. And they were saying, "You need to think of yourself as a brand and you need to protect that brand." I just don't understand what that really means in terms of being an actor, and I also think I would find that a slightly soul-destroying way to look at myself.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.