Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton
I was asked to be in the last two 'Harry Potter' films and I couldn't do it because I was busy filming 'Grey's Anatomy.
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.
The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter. . . or at least, most minds are.
Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!
Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter!
After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.
I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —
If you're on a date and somebody comes up and says, "Oh, I loved you in Harry Potter," it's a bit weird, because you suddenly start thinking, "Oh, God. Is this weird for the other person I'm here with, or is this weird for my family?" But generally speaking, I don't really think because I was thrown into it so young and kind of always had that, it's just something you get used to. And most of the time. . . It was interesting.
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?" "Yes. " "You called her a liar?" "Yes. " "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?" "Yes. " "Have a biscuit, Potter.
It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.
The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.
What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.
With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.
Do not pity the dead, Harry.
I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again.
Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan. . . a bluff. . . Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you. . . It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.
No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.
Everyone queue up!' Malfoy roared to the crowd. 'Harry Potter's giving out signed photos!
. . . perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it.