Obviously, I’ve been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I’ve been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the...

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I’m a massive quiz show person.

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.

Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn’t because I’ve spent so much time on film sets, and I know...

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

If you are going to do justice to the book, it has to be dark,

The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying ‘Thank you for my childhood’, which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

I didn’t have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It’s meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

The American version of ‘The Office’ is fantastic.

My taste in the films I’ve taken as an actor is similar to what I’d do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

In a way, … growing up like this with Harry makes it easier to act in each of the films, because I’ve been through all the stuff that he’s going through, like the hormones, relatively...

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don’t see the use of the monarchy though I’m fierce patriot. I’m...

Also I just think I’ve been lucky enough to have great parents, and I’ve had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if...

I’m quite confident, but I don’t fancy myself. I don’t really care about how I look.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it’s even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

I want to prove to people that I’m an actor and not just a character.

I thought it was really weird seeing my face up on the screen.

The sixth Harry Potter film – I don’t like my performance in that film at all.

I definitely think that theatre is something I’ll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre’s something you have to be very fit to do. I...

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system… The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and...

We are not absolutely confirmed as doing them all. We are confirmed to do the fifth but after that who knows.

I think it’s useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are – because otherwise I’d be sitting here thinking I’m keeping secrets, and...

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I don’t know what to do with it. I’m very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don’t have to...

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

That’s what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

In theory I’m naked underneath.

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

I have quite a rich inner life, and I’m constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven’t found it yet in acting. When you’re playing a character, you’re only going to find outlets...

My friends have always called me ‘Mr. Thorough,’ in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you’ve become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you’re really screwed.

I wasn’t the most popular kid in school.

He suffers from the same frailties and hormonal-related problems as all sorts of people his age, but he’s also going through this massive thing of almost paranoia, where someone’s trying to get at him, trying...

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

I’m not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I’m a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I’m useless. I mean, I’m a mess around the house. I talk...

I know it wouldn’t seem like I’ve had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, ‘That’s not good...

I have no idea how much money I’ve got.

I don’t want to say I’ll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I’m not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It’s not fun for me. There’s nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

It is really strange, but very exciting.

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.