Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.

I've always had philosophy, which has been really helpful for me, getting into the business. I didn't have any connections. I didn't know anyone. It was just about my work.

When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.

If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

I think I'm a tiny bit like Harry 'cos I'd like to have an owl. Yeah, that's the tiny bit, actually.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.

Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.

I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.

I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

The American version of 'The Office' is fantastic.

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.