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.

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

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

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.

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

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

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