Best Harry Potter Quotes

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Honestly, my character doesn’t have much in common with Harry Potter besides the fact that he’s an unlikely hero who’s thrown into a huge situation.

Timothy Spall – best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series – delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton

If you’re going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not ‘Harry Potter?’

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.

I love ‘Harry Potter.’ I’m a huge nerd – I would dress up if I could.

It’s remarkable to see the advancements since the early days of [Harry] Potter with putting LEDs on everything, pointing sticks and measuring. Just archaic stuff. Now, it’s like one guy with a laptop.

If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously – for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea – that would not be accepted on ‘Harry Potter’; someone would pull you aside and have a word.

It’s such a cool group of people that it [being a part of the DC Universe] feels like, for lack of a better analogy, being back on something like [Harry] Potter. We’re working with a really tight, talented family.

I was in three of the Harry Potter films without reading one of those book, quite thankfully.

I like playing Vernon Dursley in ‘Harry Potter,’ because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public.

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn’t beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that ‘Harry Potter’ wasn’t cool. I wasn’t part of the ‘Terminator’ franchise.

It’s such a pleasant experience [being a part of the DC Universe], though very nerve-wracking to come on to someone else’s set, essentially. They’ve been there for two years, so for me to sort of walk on and to be expected to jump into it, it’s not always that easy. But they made it incredibly welcoming and hospitable, so I’m very grateful for that.

When you’re playing a character for 10 years, it can challenge you less than it did at the beginning, so it was exciting to take on some new shoes. Especially with Erich Blunt, because being a tech wizard wasn’t something I thought I would do after Harry Potter.

Nothing’s really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it’s really fun filming.

I did ‘Deathly Hallows’ so my kids could get on the ‘Harry Potter’ set. They met Daniel Radcliffe, who was a darling and couldn’t have been nicer to them so I’m a hero right now.

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘Lord of the Rings.’.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

I want to go to Harry Potter Land! I actually should text Emma Watson to see if she can hook us up with a backstage pass or something. That’s the perk of doing a movie with Emma called ‘The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.’

I don’t read. I don’t like to read Harry Potter or anything like that. It’s not my style.

Debbie had to get up and slice me a thick piece of cake before she could answer. And I do mean thick. Harry Potter volume seven thick. I could have knocked out a burglar with this piece of cake. Once I tasted it, though, it seemed just the right size.

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

Don’t get paparazzi following me everywhere. My life there is exactly the same as it would have been if I had not been in Harry Potter. So for me, Harry Potter isn’t something that changed my life. It’s just something I did that was a lot of fun, and I got to experience amazing things from. But my actual, personal life is the same.

You’ve never told me about your love life, Scarlett. You’re a very pretty girl. You must have a boy shacked up somewhere for your personal delights. I’d bet it’s a booky one, overtones of Harry Potter and a lot of black T-shirts.

I must confess I don’t own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them. They’ve got all their home videos done in HD quality! They love it. But I struggle very much. I’m very self-conscious as an actor, anyway. I don’t like watching my own performances, even in this recent one.

There’s rivalry between the Harry Potter fans and the Twilight fans. And Twilight fans think they’re much cooler than the Harry Potter fans. And I’m like, I dunno why, they’d all get their butts kicked by the Doctor Who fans.

I absolutely don’t relate to being beaten down my whole life – I had amazing opportunities at a young age – but there is still in many, many people’s minds the notion that I’ll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

To the children who loved Harry Potter, I want to say your enthusiasm was the real magic. I so enjoyed being on the journey with you. And to the adults who bought the Harry Potter books and devoured them, I just want to say, those books were for children.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

It feels like we’re in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.