30 Quotes by Jamie Parker

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

Wizarding is technical to me. When you get something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts, that feeling is magic to me. That's a kind of alchemy.

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

J. K. Rowling has already got a whole generation reading.

It's all you want as an actor: to have a story people want to be told.

Isn't it a rare thing, telling hopeful stories now? I think we need more of that, to be honest.

I like Monoloco in Petersfield, Hampshire, and Little Dorrit in London's Borough Market. Everything's delicious, healthy, and inexpensive.