Actor

It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done.

If you are not getting people who have never been to the theatre before to come, then you are not doing your job.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.

In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven't tidied up. That would be really helpful.

Trust is front and center in the working of this production, and it's conceivable there is a harder-working team of theater practitioners than the 'Cursed Child' company, but if there are, I'd like to meet them.

You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.

It's all you want as an actor: to have a story people want to be told.

I miss the generation of actors such as John Mills, where it doesn't surprise you at all when he crops up in a film tap-dancing.

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

Generally in the theatre, you spend some portion of the performance convincing people they have done the right thing in buying the ticket, that this is the play they want to watch.