Daniel Radcliffe Quotes
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You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.
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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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Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.
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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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I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.
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I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.
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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.
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I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
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And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.
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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 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.
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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.
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I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.
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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
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As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. 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.
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I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.
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I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.
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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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I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
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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.
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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 used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
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I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks.
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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'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.