Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

I haven’t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can’t emerge from a franchise and do well, that’s a very strong driving force.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.

I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

I like the idea of being a youngish parent. So I've got energy to play football even though they'll be better than me by the time they're four.

I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

It's almost a problem how much I enjoy my work.

I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.

I have a very busy personality.

The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.

I'm certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking.

Potter for me is something that's been giving me these amazing opportunities to start a career and learn while I'm doing, which is the best way to learn.

Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, "How are we going to do this?".

I really enjoy working physically.

If you're having a bad day, get on with your job, because you having a bad day can affect everyone around you.

I'll miss some of the opportunities that playing Harry [Potter] brought me.

Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.

'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.

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 don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.