Robbie Coltrane Quotes

"I have lots of images of my father. One of them is cooking a tin of ravioli in the boat hut when we'd been fishing. I don't know why. And also, he did a fantastic soft shoe shuffle, which he would do in front of the fridge when the day's work was finished. He was very dapper, very smart, always very well turned out. And seriously funny."
-Robbie Coltrane

"I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train."
-Robbie Coltrane

"Usually for a movie, if you want a 13-year-old, you get a 16-year-old who looks 13, because 13-year-olds don't have that level of self-awareness."
-Robbie Coltrane

"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, don't you?"
-Robbie Coltrane

"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."
-Robbie Coltrane

"It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for Harry Potter!"
-Robbie Coltrane

"It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific."
-Robbie Coltrane

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
-Robbie Coltrane