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

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.

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

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.

I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.

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.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.