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

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'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.

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

Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes dare it again and it will succumb.

The attempt to close the gap between what is known and what IS, is the temptation behind the apple in Genesis.

Love was even more mathematical than poetry. It was the pure mathematics of the spirit.

No one's tried to stab me. That's cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax