Harry Potter Quotes - Page 15

• I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.

  Richard Matheson

  Writing, Bridges, Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was doing progressively smaller movies in England, after Harry Potter... to the point where I was doing nine-day shoots for, like, 20p and a packet of Space Invaders. And then this happened. So I'm not just another actor who's around and jobbing. When you hire me for a job, you're hiring.

  Robert Pattinson

  Jobs, Space, Potters

  "Robert Pattinson interview: Reality bites". Interview With Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2011.

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• There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children.

  William Easterly

  Children, Book, Medicine

  William Easterly (2006). “The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good”, p.11, Penguin

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• I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

  Samantha Shannon

  Night, Potters, Obsessed

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• T-shirts and long pants make me easier to find in a crowd, but also easy to disappear in a crowd because if I am wearing this and suddenly I am not, it's like a Harry Potter invisibility cloak.

  Kevin Smith

  Invisibility Cloak, Long, Potters

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Play, Potters, Actors

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• 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.

  Matt Smith

  Twilight, Thinking, Doctors

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• The fans reacted very positively to me being cast [The Mortal Instruments] which, as a Twilight or Harry Potter franchise, when you read a book and you have someone in your mind or you have a vision and then they're cast in real life, it can go either way. So I was very, very honored and happy that they were excited.

  Lily Collins

  Real, Book, Twilight

  "Exclusive: Lily Collins Talks PRIEST, ABDUCTION, THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS and THE BROTHERS GRIMM: SNOW WHITE at WonderCon". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 4, 2011.

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• I was very sad to leave Harry Potter but equally there will be an element of excitement about the idea that a script might come in and I don't have to go: "I'm sorry, I'm kind of busy for the next four years." The idea of that is quite exciting.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Sorry, Years, Ideas

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• Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

  Chris Colfer

  Memories, Growing Up, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• I never met my theater fans. I'm out the stage door five minutes after the curtain goes up. So that's it. I don't even know who comes, but thank God they do come. I can't tell. I keep my head down. I don't meet them. The fans from "Harry Potter" are kids who stop me in the street. I love that. That's terrific. I was amazed how many do.

  Michael Gambon

  Kids, Doors, Thank God

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• You always know when one of the first ["Harry Potter" movies] are on TV, because you'll get a text message from one of your friends saying, "How high was your voice?" It's like watching a home movie, in some sense. But you just remember because the audience sees the scenes as they're written, but we remember shooting [the scenes] and all the stories that came around it. Like the Quidditch World Cup in ["Harry Potter and the] Goblet of Fire," it's like the Glastonbury Festival at Leavesden [Studios].

  James Phelps

  Home, Fire, Voice

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• My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, People, Community

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• I loved doing Harry Potter. I had a great time on that. And I think it's good to have a mix. I think you're learning all the time.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Thinking, Potters, Had A Great Time

  "Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It's thrilling to have the opportunity to work in different areas, whether it's on a project that has all the resources behind it like Harry Potter or James Bond and then to go somewhere there's very few resources.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Opportunity, Different, Potters

  "Coriolanus - Ralph Fiennes interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Potters, Pay, Bills

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There is no magic. Harry Potter was probably the last one. There are no Harry Potters in politics. There are people who should be hard working, admit their mistakes - and we made a lot of mistakes - make an honest self-critic but change what we did wrong. What did we do wrong? We built a state which is big, which is corrupted, which is a state which should radically change. What is Mr Tsipras saying - keep it as it is, so everything that is old belongs to him.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Mistake, Hard Work, Self

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Like one time I was a fish in Noah's Ark and now I'm in Harry Potter, a big step.

  Rupert Grint

  Ark, Potters, Steps

  "Two 'Potter' stars talk about the film". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2001.

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• I need Harry Potter like a grindylow needs water.

  Hank Green

  Water, Needs, Potters

  "Hank and John from the Road". nerdfighteria.info. November 3, 2008.

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• Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at the same age, there are nonetheless changes afoot. Harry's voice, like that of his best friend, Ron (Rupert Grint), sounds like the mating cry of an oboe, and, worse still, the two cease to be best friends.

  Anthony Lane

  Two, Voice, Giving

  "Boy Wonders" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2005.

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• True 'magic' is simply the ability to transcend what seems to be and, thus, transform one's experience. Maybe we could all use a little 'Harry Potter' in our lives.

  Bill Crawford

  Magic, Use, Potters

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• I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'

  Kate Beckinsale

  Daughter, Eight, Years

  Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 31, 2007.

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• Yeah, I screamed in Daniel Radcliffe's face. We were both doing Letterman. I grabbed him by the shoulder. Of course, I'm in 6-inch heels. That makes me 6-foot-4. I'm towering over him, saying, 'I love Harry Potter!' His security people were nodding to each other - should we go?

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Feet, People, Faces

  The Daily Beast Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 19, 2012.

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• It's interesting to work with Emma [Watson] so quickly after Harry Potter. When we shot this movie, it wasn't that long after Harry Potter was finished, and it's knowing that's a big transition in her life. She's a very talented young woman.

  Ethan Hawke

  Knowing, Long, Interesting

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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