Tom Felton Quotes

Doing films as an actor, you spend maybe 40 percent of the year doing your chosen profession. If you are on a successful TV show, you spend 80 percent of your year doing the thing you love.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

Within a few weeks of coming back from filming 'Lemonade Mouth,' I got these scripts, and 'Terra Nova' was the one that stuck out. I was like, 'Oh my gosh'.

Casting is really exciting. With 'Twilight,' I wasn't involved at all with the casting in the original. They kept me in the loop, which was great. They'd be like, 'Hey Kristen Stewart's gonna do it' and I was like, 'Really? Awesome.'

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

Theatre is what I've always done, really, especially with the RSC, but I do bits and pieces on TV.

I just wanted to do it all. Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it, and I had never been on set before. But, from the minute I got on set and did 'Old School,' I was like, 'I want to do this!'

I don't miss acting in films. I haven't had that many good experiences with it. If I had, I probably would like it more.

I don't use any techniques; I'm not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I guess I'm just a normal kid apart from the acting.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

I am one of those people who is not very patient in the makeup chair. I have been offered movies like 'Planet of the Apes' and stuff like 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas' and I turned them down.

I was lucky enough to have a plethora of types of roles before and during the horror movie part of my career.

I was a repertory actor, which meant that I did a play every week. I was a different character every week; for a year, I was doing 40 or 50 characters.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

I've done a movie called 'Lemonade Mouth' for Disney Channel, which was fun to do. I actually got discovered through an open casting call where anyone could audition.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

I had a small part in 'Pineapple Express.'

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

I'm pretty sure I became an actress solely because of craft services. When you're a kid and there's a lady walking around with a tray of chocolate and other free candy, that's the best reason to be in the industry!

I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.

I came out of drama school thinking I'd do some theatre, maybe some television, and maybe, someday, a film.