"I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal."

"Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home."

"I think you're working and learning until you die."

"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

"I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost."

"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"

"My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me."