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When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.

I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.

I want to play a Disney villainess so badly.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this crazy world right now.