"I'm not clumsy; just accident prone."

"Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself."

"I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups."

"Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic."

"I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that."

"Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you."

"Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words."

"It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true."

"There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different."

"I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen."

"I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks."

"I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation."

"There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life."

"My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town."

"When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that."

"Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness."

"When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage."

"My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person."

"I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation."

"Personally, I prefer the dark side."

"My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues."

"I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone."

"I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me."

"England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly."

"I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit."

"I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make."

"Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome."

"I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do."

"I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am."

"I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things."

"I'm not much of a cake person."

"When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in."

"As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions."

"No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country."

"Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully."

"I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, darn that, I'm Harry Potter!"

"And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy."

"Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots."

"I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars."

"People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love."

"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession"

"If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest"

"The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil."

"God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth - "and "often nothing so strange."

"Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization."

"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power."

"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters"

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession."