122 Quotes by David Thewlis

Alfonso Cuarón, in the rehearsals, without J.K. Rowling's knowledge, told me that [my character] was, in fact, gay. So I'd been playing a part like a gay man for quite a long time. Until it turned out that I indeed got married to Tonks. I changed my whole performance after that. Just saw it as a phase he went through.

I felt an enormous responsibility because internationally there's a real passion among kiddies for these books.

It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not read the third book, by the time I came to do it.

Yeah he's a kind of very kindly, very nurturing teacher with a little dark secret that I am supposed not to mention, but its one of the best selling books in the world, so I turn into a werewolf.

Well, The Island of Dr Moreau wasn't very good, was it? I remember the day Brando turned round to me and said this was the craziest thing he'd ever been involved in.

It was actually the thing that I've put my heart into the most, in terms of research and everything, because I was a great admirer of Rimbaud's work.

Not really, although I kind of went into a few chat rooms to research the character and a lot of the kids were very abrasive about me playing the character, because they didn't know me, they wanted Jude Law, or Ewan McGregor or someone more handsome basically.

I'm in the fifth one, so I'm reading the book now. You know he's not a werewolf don't you? He's actually a cat!

You can say at least once in your career you've done the whole werewolf transformation thing. But it wasn't fun to do.