Wizarding is technical to me. When you get something that adds up to more than the sum of its parts, that feeling is magic to me. That’s a kind of alchemy. Jamie Parker Read Quote
It can be painful leaving parts of yourself behind. Change and shuffling off your previous skin is traumatic, but it can be done. Jamie Parker Read Quote
You’re always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you’re performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes. Jamie Parker Read Quote
In real life, I wish I could do a Scourgify. That would just be incredible helpful, when I know the rest of the family is gong to be back in 30 seconds and I haven’t tidied up. That would be really helpful. Jamie Parker Read Quote
If you want to do good material and you’re lucky enough to get a chance to do it, then chances are probably somebody pretty nifty will have been there before you. Jamie Parker Read Quote
I miss the generation of actors such as John Mills, where it doesn’t surprise you at all when he crops up in a film tap-dancing. Jamie Parker Read Quote
Trust is front and center in the working of this production, and it’s conceivable there is a harder-working team of theater practitioners than the ‘Cursed Child’ company, but if there are, I’d like to meet them. Jamie Parker Read Quote
New York really does know how to welcome you through its gates – if they decide that’s what they want to do. Jamie Parker Read Quote
When I got the job on ‘Cursed Child,’ I was doing another show in the West End, and I was playing a part that Marlon Brando had played. Jamie Parker Read Quote
Generally in the theatre, you spend some portion of the performance convincing people they have done the right thing in buying the ticket, that this is the play they want to watch. Jamie Parker Read Quote
