Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that. |
My passion and energy get mistaken for anger. |
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. |
I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that. |
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. |
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies. |
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved. |
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. |