Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

Who are the executives, and what are the stories that are being released? Not just in movie theaters but online. When you watch Master of None, you're like, yes, this is real life to me. These are refreshing types of stories.

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

My job to make sure that thing is kick-ass - takes the mold, jumps on it, throws glitter all over it, smashes it, kicks it around, and drops the mic. If we don't do that, then we deserve not to have a hit.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

I know I'm not a coal miner, but I do long hours and I never complain, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. So, yeah, that's how I'd define myself. I want to do it right, and prove people wrong once and for all about the myth of child stars.

In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical ability - ie, projecting your voice and stage craft.

I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.

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.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

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.

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

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

I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous.

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

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

The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

I just got asked by another journalist 'Are you a feminist?' and I was just like... Is there a strange thing at the moment where you have to come out as a feminist? I've been asked if I'm a feminist so many times recently, and I'm just like 'Yes, yes, for God's sake, yes! Is there something that I give off that says I'm not?'

Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.

If you're on a date and somebody comes up and says, "Oh, I loved you in Harry Potter," it's a bit weird, because you suddenly start thinking, "Oh, God. Is this weird for the other person I'm here with, or is this weird for my family?" But generally speaking, I don't really think because I was thrown into it so young and kind of always had that, it's just something you get used to. And most of the time... It was interesting.

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

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.

Mostly, I'm drawn to great characters and great worlds that use weird things for their language - whether it's dance, whether it's pop music with Justin Bieber, or whether it's magic.

If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

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.

What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.

The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really.

I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated.

'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask."

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

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.

I have a very busy personality.

I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.

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.

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.

The American version of 'The Office' is fantastic.

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

Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, "How are we going to do this?".

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.

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.

I'm never going to be in something as commercially successful as 'Harry Potter' ever again. It's impossible. So that gives me incredible freedom to go off and make the slightly off-the-wall films that I want to make.

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

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

Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.

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