Top 35 Matthew Lewis Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m very professional.”

— Matthew Lewis

2. “You have to prepare for the unexpected. You have to be able to react to things that don’t necessarily happen every night, or aren’t supposed to happen every night. And you have to react to it in character.”

— Matthew Lewis

3. “If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I’ll go and do that. I just want to work.”

— Matthew Lewis

4. “I’m not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.”

— Matthew Lewis

5. “I love making people laugh.”

— Matthew Lewis

6. “I wasn’t bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn’t speak up too much in class.”

— Matthew Lewis

7. “Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.”

— Matthew Lewis

8. “I was a short, chubby kid, pretty shy.”

— Matthew Lewis

9. “There’s not many people on the face of the earth that don’t know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He’s had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn’t changed since the day I met him.”

— Matthew Lewis

10. “I love playing football. I started playing for a school team, which is fun, and I play a lot of five a side. I nowhere near good enough to go professional but it’s definitely one of my main hobbies. I play three times a week.”

— Matthew Lewis

11. “The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day’s shooting, but you always know that you’re all going to be coming back for the premiere.”

— Matthew Lewis

12. “I don’t feel hunky at all.”

— Matthew Lewis

13. “I wasn’t attractive when I was growing up, and I don’t think I am now.”

— Matthew Lewis

14. “Leeds is quite laid-back.”

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15. “As an actor you really want to push yourself, and there’s no better way than to do an intense drama.”

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16. “Rupert Grint is exactly like his character Ron, in that they are both incredibly funny, friendly, and loyal.”

— Matthew Lewis

17. “The great thing as an actor is that I don’t know what my agent is going to call me with next.”

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18. “I’m very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It’s nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.”

— Matthew Lewis

19. “I’m very much open to the possibilities.”

— Matthew Lewis

20. “Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there.”

— Matthew Lewis

21. “The thing that inspires me about Daniel Radcliffe and the thing that I admire the most about him is that he’s had a level of fame thrust upon him that’s relatively unheard of.”

— Matthew Lewis

22. “A lot of people struggle in their younger years, and I think people can relate to that.”

— Matthew Lewis

23. “The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.”

— Matthew Lewis

24. “I think as an actor you’re always learning, you’re always trying to experience more things.”

— Matthew Lewis

25. “It’s always been my dream to be in a war film.”

— Matthew Lewis

26. “There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.”

— Matthew Lewis

27. “I mean, I must confess I don’t own Harry Potter DVDs. My parents do. They have them all. And they like watching them.”

— Matthew Lewis

28. “I never contemplated. I just went in there and did my acting. I never thought, “What’s the character actually feeling here? What’s he trying to get across?” And never looked at it from that classically trained actor’s point of view.”

— Matthew Lewis

29. “My parents are proud of me being an actor.”

— Matthew Lewis

30. “As long as I’m acting and doing what I love, I’ll be happy.”

— Matthew Lewis

31. “I’ve always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.”

— Matthew Lewis

32. “I never went to drama school.”

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33. “I’m very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don’t like watching my own stuff.”

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34. “I get too excited about football and rugby.”

— Matthew Lewis

35. “What I’ve found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It’s where it all began and you’re working with that repetition.”

— Matthew Lewis

36. “I get recognized now and again, but the paparazzi aren’t following me around.”

— Matthew Lewis

37. “Approaching a comedy character is fun because you get to sit down with the director and ask, “What makes you laugh?” Then you end up bouncing ideas off each other.”

— Matthew Lewis

38. “Having done television, I was used to either being aware whether I got the part within the same day, or within two, three days max.”

— Matthew Lewis

39. “Yes, that’s right. More claims that John Dighton confessed to the act of killing Edward V and Richard, Duke of York alongside Tyrell and that, although Tyrell was executed, Dighton walked free and was still at liberty a decade later when More began writing.”

— Matthew Lewis