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.

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.

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.

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.

It's not always about fixing what is broken. Sometimes it's about starting over and creating something new.

If you go too far with naturalism, there is no need to even organize; just look... and paint what you see until the canvas ends.

The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.

We must all die. There's nothing terrible about death. But to live on after death, a soul, earthbound, a vampire--you don't wish any such fate for your beloved.

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

My fear, as an American, is that our own actions are going to contribute to an inspiration for terrorists to want to harm us or kill us.

It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

It's good to kind of go up and down with the love thing.