Daniel Radcliffe Quotes
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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.
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I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.
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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.
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If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.
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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.
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I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.
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I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.
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I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.
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It's almost a problem how much I enjoy my work.
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My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
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I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.
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I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
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I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.
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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.
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My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.
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You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.
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I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
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And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.
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Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.
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Don't try too hard to be something you're not.