[About auditions:] I would like to say it gets easier. Truthfully, it doesn't. But I developed a strange kind of addiction to the process. Before eac… - Tom Felton

[About difficulties part of normal life:] They were all parts of the regular rough and tumble of a normal childhood. At the very least, they were not part of the cloistered upbringing I could have easily have had forced upon me. I would have been a very different person if I hadn't been given the opportunity to experience the ups and downs of a normal life alongside the madness of being part of Harry Potter. At is was, I had the best of both worlds.

If you tell a person he's great enough times he'll start to believe it. If you blow enough smoke up someone's arse, sooner or later they will start breathing it in. It's almost inevitable. [...] I acted the way I was treated. For a while it was lots of fun, but only for a while. The gleam soon began to tarnish. I never knew I wanted this kind of life, and as time passed, an uncomfortable truth quietly presented itself to me. I didn't want it. Perhaps it sounds ungrateful, I don't mean it to. I was in a lucky and privileged position, but there was something inauthentic about the life I was leading.

[About finding work in Los Angeles:] Some doors were open to me. An LA agency accepted me as their client. They took me to lunch at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and took great pride in telling me that this was where the film Pretty Woman had been filmed. I nodded politely but didn't tell them I had never seen Pretty Woman. I felt out of place. A kid from Surrey being wined and dined at one of Hollywood's most exclusive and fashionable spots. Between you and me, I would have preferred a box of chicken nuggets.