Quotes by Robbie Coltrane

“Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.”

“My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but Harry Potter, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, dont you?”

“Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds dont have that level of self-awareness.”

“Its like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for Harry Potter!”

“My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because theres an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if youve been a difficult teenager.”

“Its a very bad time for genuinely creative people to do television or anything now. There isnt a huge audience anymore to get the big budget which you need to make good drama unless you get sponsorship or unless you get teen stars to be in them. That sort of ties in with marketing and Coca-Cola and all that stuff.”

“I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.”

“I was always terribly, terribly aware of how cliched the whole ritual between men and women is. This was 1964, 1965. The girls all stood on one side of the room, the boys stood on the other.”

“Its hell with that big beard and stuff. Thats the one bit I dont like. Either you take out at lunch or you dont eat. So I opted not to eat, cause having to put it on twice is horrific.”

“I have lots of images of my father. One of them is cooking a tin of ravioli in the boat hut when wed been fishing. I dont know why. And also, he did a fantastic soft shoe shuffle, which he would do in front of the fridge when the days work was finished. He was very dapper, very smart, always very well turned out. And seriously funny.”

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and its really all about them.

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

See, what youre meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, arent you? Well, Ive always had fast cars. Its not that. Its the fear that youre past your best. Its the fear that the stuff youve done in the past is your best work.