Daniel Radcliffe Quotations | Page 3

I think it was pretty obvious early on that we had both come with kind of the same attitude of "Let's just [jump] in," and neither of us was going to be precious about it. I feel like the thing that we learned is, weirdly, the most intimate thing or a very intimate thing you can do to somebody is hold their tongue with your fingers. When Paul [Dano] is making me talk [in Swiss Army Man].

[I] take inspiration from kids. ... They're very honest in how they act and how they are in the world.

It's almost a problem how much I enjoy my work.

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

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

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

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

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.

Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in their hands. There's something really lovely about knowing you're working with directors who know exactly what they want and exactly what they're looking for, and they're not going to move on until they have it. That, as an actor, frees you up a lot because you can [try different approaches] and they'll only use what's appropriate.

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

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

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

If you like the book, you'll hate the movie.

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.

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.

Paul [Dano] was amazing at carrying me around [in Swiss Army Man]. I wanted to be there as much as possible but didn't want to hurt Paul's back, but Paul often chose me over the dummy many times on the set. But yeah, to be honest, a little bit of preparation I did with my friend in my flat could never have prepared me for quite the level of physical reliance we would have on each other.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

We would choreograph [ with Paul Dano] before each scene [in Swiss Army Man] and very quickly got to a place where we could improvise physically in scene and know that the other person would respond in character appropriately. So that [dynamic] was a lot of fun.

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became a literary agent and my mom a casting director.

I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

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

I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can.

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

I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.

It's really good to talk about it [ hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts], and it's very gratifying when people ask us about the other aspects of the film [Swiss Army Man], but [those things] are part of the movie and they're important and hilarious, a very fun part of the movie, so there's no sense from us of not wanting to talk about that. I think it's exciting that those things exist in a film that is also very heartfelt and emotional and profound.

I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.

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.

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

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

It's important to say that the more challenging a scene is, in a way, the more fun it is because the more of my job I get to do.

There is always this thing of will you get too old for your part? But people are playing a lot younger than they actually are in real life. I don't think it's as big an issue as a lot of people are making it out to be.

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

I have a very busy personality.

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 clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.

Once Now You See Me proved that that tone could work, which I'm sure was a nightmare for them in post - is this too serious? Do we have to say that magic really does exist or not? - I can take that and have fun with the tone that they established.

This is only going to add fuel to the fire that I'm gay. I don't really care. I'm so past the point of caring. I really don't. But I looked fantastic in Fleur's outfit!

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.

[The paparazzi] were outside the theatre every single night, but we came up with a cunning ruse. I would wear the same outfit every time - a different T-shirt underneath, but I'd wear the same jacket and zip it up so they couldn't see what I was wearing underneath, and the same hat. So they could take pictures for six months, but it would look like the same day, so they became unpublishable. Which was hilarious, because there's nothing better than seeing paparazzi getting really frustrated.

I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest I was ... when you know a gay guy has a crush on you, it's the most flattering thing.

Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

For someone like Daniel [Radcliffe ], it's really fun to go against your image. He's such a goody-two-shoes in Harry Potter.

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.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Every situation is different. A director is what a director wants to be. If you want to force something, you can fight to the death and maybe get fired, but it's your job to help push things along.

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.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

It's interesting for myself, growing up as an Asian-American filmmaker. Coming into the industry, my parents always said, "No one's going to give you the opportunity. You just have to do the work. Be better than everyone else, so they can't deny it."

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.

I've always had philosophy, which has been really helpful for me, getting into the business. I didn't have any connections. I didn't know anyone. It was just about my work.

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.

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'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.

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.

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

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

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.

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.

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

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

The American version of 'The Office' is fantastic.

You never want to be forced to do something. But the world around you starts to influence you in ways you never expected.

One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

We sing a lot of the soundtrack in this film [Swiss Army Man] - me and Paul Dano - and on the last day of filming we had to just get into the back of our sound mixer's van and record a really crappy, rough version of the singing then. For some reason that was one of the most fun days.

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,

I've not got a girlfriend at the moment. Somebody said, 'Do you worry girls are just giving you attention because of who you are?' I was like, 'I'm 17, it's wonderful.'

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

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

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.

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

I'm not much of a cake person.

I don't really care about how I look.

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

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.

To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag.

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

It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there's no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes.

I fell in love with that movie [Now You See Me]. I liked the actors. I thought it was an interesting world. When they called me with the opportunity to direct the next one, the first question I needed to address was, what are we going to do to make it different? How can I add something to the franchise? If I can't add anything, then there's no reason for me to do it.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

I think any man who says he has never had an awkward moment with a girl, is a liar or he's delusional because he's sitting there thinking he is doing really well and the girl is thinking "Who is this man and why is he talking to me?"

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

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

To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

No. I can quite happily say someone is handsome, good-looking, and I can see why someone would want to f**k them, but I've never felt that way about a man myself. There is that moment in your late teens when you ask yourself the question, 'Am I?' but I wasn'tWell, this year I have a talent crush on Ryan Gosling. I think he's fantastic and(ahem) you know he'd be nice afterwards. He seems smart. If I was gay, I would go for a smart man.

The only thing I can think of is my favorite album at the moment by this guy called Father John Misty, and the album is called I Love You, Honeybear. It's just brilliant. It's the album I'm currently obsessed with. It is original, and the lyrics are fantastic and [it's] brilliant. So that's blowing me away.

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.

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

I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks.

I don't [believe in God]. I have a problem with religion or anything else that says, 'We have all the answers,' because there's no such thing as 'the answers.' We're complex. We change our minds on issues all the time. Religion leaves no room for human complexity.