Top 63 Matthew Lewis Quotes
#3. I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.
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#4. I was offered 'Strictly Come Dancing.' I turned it down because that celebrity world is not what I'm into.
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#5. I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.
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#6. You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be able to react to things that don't necessarily happen every night, or aren't supposed to happen every night. And you have to react to it in character.
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#7. I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.
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#8. To be fair, when I started doing 'Verdict' I literally had no idea what I was doing. I wanted to do some theatre, as I wanted to do something different. I wanted to learn and get an understanding of the craft.
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#10. If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.
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#12. There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.
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#13. I live in Leeds, which is about 200 miles north of London, and I get to go and do all the 'Harry Potter' stuff and make great films and be part of this wonderful thing all around the world, and then I get to go home and chill out with my friends in Leeds and go watch the football and go to the pub.
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#14. The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he's had a level of fame thrust upon him that's relatively unheard of.
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#15. Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.
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#16. The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.
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#17. I have abandoned the world and its delights for ever: Nothing now remains, Nothing now has charms for me, but your friendship, but your affection. If I lose that, Father! Oh! if I lose that, tremble at the effects of my despair!
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#18. I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.
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#19. A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.
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#21. You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.
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#22. With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.
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#23. I did enjoy theater. I actually do prefer making films and television, but it was a learning experience for me, because I got into television at 5 and film at 11, and theater was something I completely bypassed.
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#24. I've acted since I was 5 years old, so that's still something I want to do.
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#26. Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal.
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#27. 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. Or at least I like to keep it the same.
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#28. You can stay true to yourself and your friends, you can do the right thing, you can do with your life whatever you want to. I think that's a lovely message.
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#29. It's always been my dream to be in a war film.
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#31. I am fortunate that I get sent scripts and get to meet people I would never have met had I not done 'Harry Potter.' But I feel I had to come out of that show and prove that I am not a one trick pony and can do other stuff.
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#32. I have no friend! The whole wide world cannot furnish a heart that is willing to participate in the sorrows of mine!
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#33. As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.
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#34. Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.
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#36. As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.
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#37. One of the crucial things to the story of 'Harry Potter's' success is just how well everyone got on. There were never any problems with anybody.
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#38. Having done television, I was used to either being aware whether I got the part within the same day, or within two, three days max.
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#39. I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.
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#41. The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.
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#42. I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.
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#43. I think a lot of people can relate to that school is pretty lousy for a lot of people, and it just shows that you don't have to be perfect and you can still be a hero.
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#44. I started to see acting as a real science. That really helped me grow as an actor.
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#45. Approaching a comedy character is fun because you get to sit down with the director and ask, "What makes you laugh?" Then you end up bouncing ideas off each other.
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#46. You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort.
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#47. I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.
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#48. I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.
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#49. There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.
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#50. I was nervous. I was thinking, 'Gee, he's Ralph Fiennes. What an amazing actor, and I can have this scene with him.' But I enjoyed it, you know. That's what I got into acting to do - to push myself and see if I can do these things.
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#51. I don't want to act as if 'Harry Potter' wasn't the most amazing thing because it truly was, but it's also great personally that I'm starting to see signs that I can move on from it and do other stuff that hopefully people enjoy.
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#52. When you're a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.
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#53. You don't get time to rehearse in film and TV at all.
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#54. I never contemplated. I just went in there and did my acting. I never thought, "What's the character actually feeling here? What's he trying to get across?" And never looked at it from that classically trained actor's point of view.
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#55. What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.
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#56. I've got my life and 'Harry Potter,' where I travel the world, I make films, I meet amazing people, I do press junkets and stuff. And then I go back home to Leeds, where I live, and I've got the same friends from before.
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#57. I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.
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#58. May I not safely credit her assertions? Will it not be easy for me to forget her sex, and still consider her as my Friend and my disciple? Surely her love is as pure as She describes. Had it been the offspring of mere licentiousness, would She so long have concealed it in her own bosom?
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#59. I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.
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#60. The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.
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#61. As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.
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#63. I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it's definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week.
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