Daniel Radcliffe Quotes
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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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I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
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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 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 wasn't the most popular kid in school.
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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'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks.
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I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.
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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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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 get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
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I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
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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'm not much of a cake person.
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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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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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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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England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.
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A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.
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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've always had a slightly overactive imagination.
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Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
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There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.