I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.

I love working in New York theater.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

I'm a quite serious actor who doesn't mind being ridiculously comic.

I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

My idea of a real treat is Magic Mountain without standing in line.

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

So you can't judge the character you're playing ever.

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.