Tom Felton

"If you tell a person hes great enough times hell start to believe it. If you blow enough smoke up someones arse, sooner or later they will start breathing it in. Its almost inevitable. [...] I acted the way I was treated. For a while it was lots of fun, but only for a while. The gleam soon began to tarnish. I never knew I wanted this kind of life, and as time passed, an uncomfortable truth quietly presented itself to me. I didnt want it. Perhaps it sounds ungrateful, I dont mean it to. I was in a lucky and privileged position, but there was something inauthentic about the life I was leading."

"[About on-set tutoring:] Its hard to be the class clown in a class of one."

"[...] Just because the camera isnt pointing at you, it doesnt mean you dont have to act. In fact, your acting off-camera can sometimes be as important as your acting on-camera. Your reactions, your eye line, and your dialogue are ballast for whoever is on camera at the time."

"[...] Certain fans had difficulties distinguishing between Tom, the actor, and Draco, the character. Understandable in five-year-old, but perhaps a little harder to process in someone older. [...] In a way, the tendency some people have to conflate the character and the actor is a compliment. I dont want, in any way, to overstate my contribution to the world of Harry Potter and the effect the phenomenon has had on peoples lives. If I hadnt turned up to audition that day, somebody else would have had the part and they would have done it well. The whole project would have been largely the same. But there is some gratification in knowing that my performance crystallized peoples notion of the character. Even if it meant they occasionally mistook fantasy for reality."

"An audience can go back and watch a film any number of times they want. Its always there for them. For the cast and crew, the relationship with a film is more complex. The magic is in the making, and that process is a discrete unit of time in the past. You can reflect on that unit of time, you can be proud of it, but you cant revisit it."

"[About auditions:] I would like to say it gets easier. Truthfully, it doesnt. But I developed a strange kind of addiction to the process. Before each audition, I would stand outside the room and my nervous brain would try to enumerate all the reasons why I really didnt have to be there. Why I should just walk away. But afterwards, the relief of having done it was like nothing else. No matter how good or bad the audition was, the ecstatic adrenaline rush gave me a unique buzz. I might be back at square one in the acting world, but I was getting a kick out of it."