Daniel Radcliffe famous quotes

I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Remember #Interaction

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Play #Potters #Actors

I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Woods #Orlando #Really Cool

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Play #Long #Desire

I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Boring #So Boring #Personal Life

I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Thinking #Film #Process

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#World #Facts #Like You

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Actors #Hitting #Instinct

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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Life #Couple #Nice

Some people think I am gay, which I think is awesome.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Gay #Thinking #People

When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Dog #School #Doors

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Religious #Proud

I'm not much of a cake person.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Cake #Persons

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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#New York #Home #Years

I don't really care about how I look.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Looks #Care

I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Girl #Liars #Lying

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Mafia #Potters #Harry Potter

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Nerd #Stuff #Film

I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Fans #Sock

Richard [Griffiths] was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. In August 2000, before official production had even begun on Potter, we filmed a shot outside the Dursleys', which was my first ever shot as Harry. I was nervous and he made me feel at ease. Seven years later, we embarked on 'Equus' together. It was my first time doing a play but, terrified as I was, his encouragement, tutelage and humor made it a joy. In fact, any room he walked into was made twice as funny and twice as clever just by his presence.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Encouragement #Clever #Careers

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Trying

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Hate #Self #Lines

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Moving

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Thinking #Long #Actors

Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Gay #Blessing #Law

There's never enough time to do nothing!
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Enough Time #Enough

I wasn't the most popular kid in school.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#School #Kids

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Japan #Woods #Mistaken

I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Feet #Giving #Bigs

I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that’s possibly why I’m quite camp, and some people think I’m gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It’s always good to keep them guessing,
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Gay #Thinking #People

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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Art #Circles #Lines

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Xbox #Design #Boxers

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Reading #Book #Blood

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, ***** that, I'm Harry Potter.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Self Esteem #Potters #Height

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Mind #Care

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Interesting #Assuming

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Rooms #Complexity #Humans

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Atheist #People #Atheism

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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Running #Dad #Play

Personally, I prefer the dark side.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Dark #Sides #Dark Side

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Dancing #Aptitude #Scared

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Hate #Film

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Careers #Actors #Young

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Atheist #Legislation #Militant

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Past #Years #Realization

Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Cameras #Screw Ups #Intimidating

I'm not an easy person to love. 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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Funny #Cute #Boyfriend

When you get as lucky as I got, you have to work as hard as possible to earn that luck.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Luck #Lucky

I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Mom #Dad #Growing Up

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Wall #Taken #Challenges

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Interesting #Directors #Different

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Actors #Wizards

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Imagination #Exploration #My Favorite

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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Fun #Blood #Stuff

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Real #Self #Long

People who have car collections - I never understood that. I always thought that was unnecessary. It's not beautiful, it's not creative. It's just showing how much money you've got.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Beautiful #People #Car

I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Queens #Eye #Makeup

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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Example #Boards #Want

I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Upset #Transition #Way

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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Work #Mistake #People

I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Special #Merit

I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Mean #Giving #Worry

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Party #Mean #Thinking

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Country #Thinking #Use

I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Mean #Work Ethic #Proud

The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised, without even being looked at, go out with a 6ft 8in beautiful transsexual. No one gives you a second glance. Especially when you're 5ft 5in.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Beautiful #Giving #Advice

I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Book #Kids #Potters

I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Sex #Men #Thinking

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Mom #Dad #Believe

You don't have to be gay to be a supporter- you just have to be a human.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Gay #Humans #Supporter

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Actors #Film

To the children who loved Harry Potter, I want to say your enthusiasm was the real magic. I so enjoyed being on the journey with you. And to the adults who bought the Harry Potter books and devoured them, I just want to say, those books were for children.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Children #Real #Book

I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Glasses #Mirrors #Years

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Successful #Potters #Film

If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Hate #Book

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Mom #Religious #Dad

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Thinking #Morbid #Persons

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Asking #Strange

That's what fame does to you. You acquire another self.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Self #Doe #Fame

Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's (Coltrane) to speak in Turkish.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Phones #Buttons #Different

I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Sports #Writing #Actors

I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#America

All it takes is for me to be seen chatting up a girl for [tabloids] to, you know, make up some crappy headline about me being a sex rat or whatever they call it.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Girl #Sex #Tabloids

I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Levels #Bitter #Funny Jokes

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Believe #Believe In Yourself #Important

People do incredible things for love, particularly for unrequited love.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Unrequited Love #People #Incredibles

I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#New York #Nice #People

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Believe #Thinking #Rights

I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent,
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#School #Hard Times #Talent

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#People #Irritating #Bombarded

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Comfort #Levels #Film

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Religious #Study #Persons

I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Looks #Care #Fancy

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Situation #Pleasant

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.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Behaviour #Actors #Way