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

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

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

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

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

There are some actors who are rehearsal actors, and some who are not. I am not. Having said that, I don't know what I am talking about.

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