Top 305 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Radcliffe - Page 3

I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

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

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 quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.

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

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

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

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. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.

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

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.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

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.

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.

Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.

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.

I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

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

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

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.

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.

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

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

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 absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

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

The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.

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.

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

I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

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

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

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

I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don't think that the actors should be any different.

I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

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

I'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.

I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.

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 want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time - that doesn't work for me. I do that very unsuccessfully. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.