Matthew Lewis quotes:

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.

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.

I mean, I must confess I don't own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it.

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.

You don't get time to rehearse in film and TV at all.

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.

As an actor, you always want to feel like what you're doing is making a difference to the story.

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.

You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort.

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.

The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.

Leeds is quite laid-back.

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.

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.

I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

I never went to drama school.

A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.

As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there's no better way than to do an intense drama.

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren't following me around.

I get too excited about football and rugby.

I love making people laugh.

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.

I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.

I was never really bullied at school. I was pretty confident in terms of school work and teachers and I've never shyed away from much but a lot of people have come up to me and said that they were bullied at school and my portrayal of Neville has influenced them a lot in their lives and helped them out.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

I'm very much open to the possibilities.

I'm very professional.

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.

It's always been my dream to be in a war film.

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.

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My parents are proud of me being an actor.

Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal.

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.

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

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.

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

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.

Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.

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.

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.

You know, girls in general are scarier than Voldemort,

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

I don't feel hunky at all.