Tom Felton Quotes

You avoid the hype while you're working, you have to, but the premiere is the one night of the year where you can enjoy it.

I had been working for eight years and all I had to show for it was this horrible debt. At one point we had the bailiff at the door.

I have met a couple of six-year-olds who were apparently quite excited to meet me - before they actually met me. And when they actually met me they ran behind their parents' legs and cowered for shelter.

What twelve year old wouldn't want to play an evil wizard?

It's like in politics: You can have great intentions for the world, but if you're not a good speaker and if you're not the sort of person that people can intimately link with, then it makes it very easy to say, "Well, they're not a nice person."

My favorite country is America. I love going there! I go in the local lake near where I work on Sundays. It's called Berry Hill.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

The only time I can really relax is up a tree or somewhere outside. I love being outside.

The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.

I went to see every angler on the bank to see how they were doing, to try to give them a few tips or whatever. But yeah, we had a lot of fun. It was definitely a good time and we're definitely going to do it again next year.

People's instinct when they hear someone is madly obsessed with Star Wars or Harry Potter or something like that, they think that it's odd and not as cool as being a massive sports fan or film nerd. But I think it's amazing and something that should be celebrated and definitely not looked down on or misunderstood.

If I could be anywhere, where would I be?

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

I started my own record label.

And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality. It's fantastic when you go to premieres and people cheer you, but it's not real. And it's totally not my approach to get my name on a club door just because I can.

I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music.

I don't like to label films with a genre.

In England we are sort of very awkward.

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

The Japanese fans always send weird things.

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

If someone tried to take the hierarchy thing too seriously - for example, being lovely to producers but moaning to runners about the tea - that would not be accepted on 'Harry Potter'; someone would pull you aside and have a word.

Yes I still enjoy playing him. He's the best person to play isn't he?

I like to fish. Fishing is always a way of relaxing.

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

Languages, like our bodies, are in a perpetual flux, and stand in need of recruits to supply those words that are continually falling, through disuse.

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

Also, I just think of Draco and he gets me in the right mood. He just keeps getting worse and worse.

I used to have some fish, some nice little carp, but they got too big for the tank. I don't have any pets now.

If you're put on a set with a lot of people, it's just nice to see everyone working together.

The actual course is called fishery studies, and you study general aquatics and fishery management.

I'm not too unintelligent.

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

If young children boo me, that makes my day.

It's definitely more fun playing a bad guy. It feels a lot better than playing one of the good guys.

I'm always buying gadgets, especially at airports.

I find it's usually the bullies who are the most insecure.

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

I like the laid-back ladies. Looks are stressed so much these days, and a lot of girls feel they need to do all of these weird and wonderful things to look good, and they really don't. The best-looking girls don't do anything; they just sort of know they're beautiful, especially in jeans and a hoodie.

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.

It's shocking to say, but the cinema is quite a while away from me, and I haven't got a car yet.

Oh God, you know what would be really good for me is a dog locater - it would save me the hours that I have to spend looking for my dog.

In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.

I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.

Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

There was a scary two years where it was madness because I was really in trouble with the taxman.

It took us a lot of man hours to get that bloody white hair out, so it's good to get rid of it.

I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires.

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.

I really tried out for the part of Harry Potter, but they ended up picking me for the part of the enemy of Harry. Actually it is really fun playing the bad kid because it just has so many interesting qualities to it. And Daniel Radcliffe and I get along really well off set so it's really fun filming.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.

I used to be mad on the games, but I had to ban myself. I used to spend three dollars on games, [but] it adds up, so now I'm on the social side of things like Twitter and Instagram. I love my weather apps. I guess because all the Brits are obsessed with weather.

As soon as you see 'Dame' in front of someone's name, you get nervous, but Dame Maggie Smith is the most wonderfully gentle woman I have ever met. She never had a bad word to say.

The music stuff is just a hobby.

I get letters that say 'Stop being evil to Harry or we'll go to Hogwarts and kick your butt. Some fans are so weird. One changed his name legally to Lucius Malfoy and wanted to adopt me.

I'm terrible at texting people back. It takes me, like, three days. I'm not a big phone person.

I'm going to change my image - backward caps, the lot.

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.

Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life.

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

I like a funny girl. Smart. Talented. I like someone who is good at music - that always intrigues me.

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

I confess, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight.

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

I was cursed with age, really. You do that stupid thing at 12 years old when you say something and it kind of sticks with you for the rest of your life. So, I believe I said I wanted to be a fishery manager. In hindsight, I think acting could be a better route.

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.

You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different.

I'd like to know about some of the things that they teach down there, like building a lake. If I ever wanted to build a lake, I'd like to know how to do it.

Those of you that think filming is all glamour, you're so wrong! Really, only the premieres are the glitzy bits.

It's fun to be blond, and it's almost difficult to remember how I used to look with my proper hair color.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

I'd have to just say that working with other people, it's a different world from school.

I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I'm looking forward to that.