"It's 'Rafe', actually." "When children were introduced to Lord Voldemort, they looked suitably terrified. Which gave me great gratification." "As an actor, a part of you expects to be looked at. A part of you wants to be looked at. But when I'm playing a part, in my imagined world, I feel I'm not me. I may be using bits of me, but I love the sense that I'm being someone else." "Awards are like applause, and every actor likes to hear applause." "The process of making a film is a mad lottery. Whenever you get the feeling that you're making something special, you have to quickly squash it because you are so often proved wrong." "I think it's a badge of honor to have a real flop on your resume" - about The Avengers I tried not to play Voldemort over the top, and then I realized there's no other way. "I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it." "The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it. I call people successful not because they have money or their business is doing well but because, as human beings, they have a fully developed sense of being alive and engaged in a lifetime task of collaboration with other human beings -- their mothers and fathers, their family, their friends, their loved ones, the friends who are dying, the friends who are being born. Success.. is all about being able to extend love to people... not in a big, capital letter sense but in the everyday. Little by little, task by task, gesture by gesture, word by word."