Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

I enjoy any type of physical transformation. I enjoy working with the hair and makeup department and I enjoy watching people be very good at their jobs.

I'm not much of a cake person.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

I feel like my evolution has come to a place where now I'm attached to Crazy Rich Asians.

It's important to say that the more challenging a scene is, in a way, the more fun it is because the more of my job I get to do.

I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror

I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history.

In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical ability - ie, projecting your voice and stage craft.

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.

I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it.

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

I'm not clumsy; just accident prone.

I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn't strike me as, "Oh, I'm breaking boundaries and stuff..."

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.

I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently.

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.

I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish.

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.

What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.

[I] take inspiration from kids. ... They're very honest in how they act and how they are in the world.

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

I have described myself as being 'gently eccentric.'

I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.