Top 120 Tom Felton Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “It’s easy to bask in the sun, not so easy to enjoy the rain. But one can’t exist without the other. The weather always changes. Feelings of sadness and happiness deserve equal mental screen time.”

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102. “I had a great childhood.”

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103. “The only true currency we have in life is the effect we have on those around us.”

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104. “If I could be anywhere, where would I be?”

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105. “He told me he was a rich man, not because he had wealth but because he had his family around him. He knew no amount of money, fame or praise would ever make him content.”

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106. “It was Alan Rickman and I was terrified, not because of the menace he exuded as Severus Snape, but because I loved the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and was obsessed with Alan’s performance as the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham. To be in the same room as the Sheriff himself was enough to penetrate even my veneer of schoolboy cockiness.”

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107. “Emma has taught me so many valuable lessons over the years, most importantly: don’t always follow the herd, never underestimate the power of a woman and, whatever you do, keep quacking.”

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108. “I’ve always had a secret love for Emma, though not perhaps in the way that people might want to hear. That isn’t to say there’s never been a spark between us. There most definitely has, only at different times.”

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109. “I couldn’t get out of bed this morning because everything felt too much.” “I don’t know what I’m doing with my life.” “I know I’m loved, so why do I feel so lonely?” Rather than see therapy as the emergency consequence of excess or illness, we should start to see it for what it can be: an essential opportunity to take time out from the voices in your head, the pressures of the world and the expectations we place on ourselves.”

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110. “There was never a day, however, that Alan Rickman wasn’t to be seen in full, flowing Snape robes, holding his tray and queuing up in the canteen for his lunch like everyone else. I was rather intimidated by Alan from day one. It took three or four years for me to manage more than a slightly terrified and squeaky “Hi Alan!” whenever I saw him. But seeing him wait patiently, in full Snape mode, for his sausage sandwich took the edge off just a little.”

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111. “Feelings of sadness and happiness deserve equal mental screen time.”

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112. “An audience can go back and watch a film any number of times they want. It’s always there for them. For the cast and crew, the relationship with a film is more complex. The magic is in the making, and that process is a discreet unit of time in the past. You can reflect on that unit of time, you can be proud of it, but you can’t revisit it.”

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113. “I don’t think I was ever in love with Emma, but I loved and admired her as a person in a way that I could never explain to anybody else.”

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114. “Helping others is a powerful weapon in the fight against mood disorders.”

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115. “Rather than see therapy as the emergency consequence of excess or illness, we should start to see if for what it can be: an essential opportunity to take time out from the voices in your head, the pressures of the world and the expectations we place on ourselves... if it is nothing more than time devoted to looking after yourself, how can that not be time well spent?”

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116. “In short, three older guys to keep me firmly in my place – which I guess is no bad thing for a kid who’s about to embark on a wizarding career.”

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117. “I am not alone in having these feelings. Just as we all experience physical ill-health at some stage in our lives, so we all experience mental ill-health too. There’s no shame in that. It’s not a sign of weakness.”

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118. “I dedicate this book to the Muggles who got me here.”

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119. “If rehab is nothing more than time devoted to looking after yourself, how can that not be time well spent?”

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120. “Then we started hanging out and I found somebody else who quacked. And that’s when I thought: To hell with them, I really am a duck!”

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121. “We live in a world where we seem increasingly in need of ways to unify ourselves, ways to build bridges and feel as one. It strikes me that very few things have achieved these aims as successfully as the brilliant world of Harry Potter.”

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122. “As the actor who played Draco Malfoy, I see myself as a placeholder in people’s memories. Seeing me transports them to a different time and place, in the same way that listening to a particular song can be evocative of something else. I’ve met with fans who have explained that the books and films have helped them through hard times. It’s a humbling truth to hear.”

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123. “I used to go to a kids’ club at Leatherhead Leisure Centre called Crazy Tots and I couldn’t wait to share my adventures with my friends there. I didn’t try to tell them about the Golden Gate Bridge or Caesars Palace or Times Square. I wanted to tell them about the important stuff: the room service, the Cartoon Network and, yes, the red puffa jacket. Pretty quickly, however, a hard truth presented itself. Literally. Nobody. Cared.”

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124. “I also know now that it’s a classic British male trait – that reluctance to express emotion and say what you really think.”

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125. “I was famous already! Brilliant! Except of course, I wasn’t famous. I was entirely unknown. Turns out that with my angelic little face, my beanie and my puffa jacket they thought I was Macaulay Culkin in full Home Alone garb, or maybe his little brother. Sorry, Macaulay, for stealing your fans, even if it was just for one day.”

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126. “Harry is the product of a family who loves him so much, they are prepared to die for him. Draco is the product of a family who bully and abuse him. But when they have the freedom to make their own choices, they reach a similar destination.”

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127. “At every moment up until then, he’d have dobbed Harry in. Finally, though, he understands what Dumbledore told Harry early in the story: that it’s our choices, not our abilities, that show us what we truly are.”

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128. “I had no idea, when I was first asked by my agents to audition for a film called Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, that it would be any different in terms of scale to the jobs I’d done previously. In my mind it was another Borrowers: a relatively high-budget film with lots of children and, if I played my cards right, a part for me. But if I didn’t get a part? That was okay too. It wasn’t the be-all and end-all. There was a good chance something else would come along.”

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129. “Every school child needs a Dumbledore in their life.”

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

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