Daniel Radcliffe Quotes
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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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It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
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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.
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I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.
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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.
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It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
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The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.
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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.
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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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I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
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Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.
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Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.
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One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
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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.
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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.
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I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.
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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. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.
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I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
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My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
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Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
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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.
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How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!
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My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
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I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.