I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.

It's not that I'm sick of the theater, don't get me wrong. I'm just tired of the commitment.

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not.

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very happy to salute that aspiration. But I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.

I don't think I'd live in London unless you paid me. Nine figures would be nice.