Daniel Radcliffe Quotes
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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 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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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.
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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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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 think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
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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 take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.
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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, 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 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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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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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've always had a slightly overactive imagination.
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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 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'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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Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
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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.