Having done television, I was used to either being aware whether I got the part within the same day, or within two, three days max.

Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

There's not many people on the face of the earth that don't know Harry Potter is Daniel Radcliffe. He's had that since he was eleven years old, yet he hasn't changed since the day I met him.

The fame stuff, the kind words from websites and things, are very flattering and lovely, but I just wanna act.

I wasn't bullied or anything at school, but I was quite shy and didn't speak up too much in class.

I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.

As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy.

I'm not a big fan of people knowing too much about me.

I love making people laugh.

It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time.

The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.

It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.

We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people

You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

If we cover a court case involving a murderer, we would still seek out the side of that murderer, even as we realize that what people say is going to be self-serving.

A very big part of the life of a photograph is the afterlife.