Robbie Coltrane

“I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.”

“If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.”

“The backgrounds in Lord of the Rings are all explained.”

“What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.”

“I've signed on for four movies, and I'll do four. That's easy. No complications there.”

“I mean, I'm obviously not one of those people who's so beautiful women take their clothes off when I walk into the room. I didn't become a star overnight.”

“I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.”

“That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.”

“It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.”

“Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.”

“The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.”

“When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.”

“I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.”

“I've already felt that I want to direct. Being an executive producer is like the best job in the world because you make all these executive decisions and then you leave the money to other people. You don't have to be on set and counting beans.”

“Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.”

“He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.”

“Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.”

“Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.”

“My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager.”

“And I think he's been very keen to do that.”