Jamie Parker

“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.”

“I was twelve when I went to boarding school in Edinburgh.”

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

“I think it's harder to write about joy than pain, isn't it?”

“J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.”

“If you want to do good material and you're lucky enough to get a chance to do it, then chances are probably somebody pretty nifty will have been there before you.”

“Theatres that are stuffed to the gunnels leave me feeling rather peaceful - that's when things are going right. When you're playing to 40% and trying to make the budget, it's more difficult.”

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

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

“New York really does know how to welcome you through its gates - if they decide that's what they want to do.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Theatre is home - I grew up doing it - and that is never going to change.”

“When I got the job on 'Cursed Child,' I was doing another show in the West End, and I was playing a part that Marlon Brando had played.”

“I like Monoloco in Petersfield, Hampshire, and Little Dorrit in London's Borough Market. Everything's delicious, healthy, and inexpensive.”

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

“I'm making it up as I go along, like everyone else. There probably are some actors who are quite methodical or at least take their time about what particular footholds to find on the rocks next. There are always choices, even when you're not getting seen, for how to spend your time. It's only after 10 years that I got any kind of traction at all.”

“I think what I have to offer is more useful in theatre than on screen.”

“I will take to my grave with me the atmosphere of the first 'Cursed Child' preview, because no one knew anything. Only very rarely have I been able to deploy the phrase 'audible gasps.'”