I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on and didn't stop until into my adulthood..

I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to ….

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the face. People born by caesarean section are more symmetr….

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ..

Some actors don't mind it. Those who are pretty. They think it's nice to be looked at because they are nice to look at. I appreciate that. I'm very h….

Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, ….

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though..

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will….

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but ….

Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at….

It's been the most astonishing year because I've been having a marvelous adventure, and yet I kind of sympathize with people who have to live in exil….

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose you're gutted, and the gutted s….

I think there are people watching me, and if ever I manage to save £1,000 there's someone saying, 'Oh, we'll invent a tax to take that off him'..

I don't like the way I look so I don't like being photographed. I become defensive..

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever since. He always knew when I was lying, because my ….

If I were dictator, I'd have a catch-all crime of disrespect..

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my c….

I've got this terrible hernia. People think it's a fat gut, but it's not..

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience..

Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s..

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get som….