Quotes by Daniel Radcliffe

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.

I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working.

I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn't for Harry Potter. And it would be height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films.

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.

I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl -- but she has to be curvy!

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.

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.

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in a sequel because you have to define how you're doing it differently.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A gay murder movie is never going to be, like, breaking box office records.

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'.

Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.

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

What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence Welch, anybody, if you are not being called gay you don't have a career. That's my theory!

Potter for me is something that's been giving me these amazing opportunities to start a career and learn while I'm doing, which is the best way to learn.

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.

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.

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 enjoy any type of physical transformation. I enjoy working with the hair and makeup department and I enjoy watching people be very good at their jobs.

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

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

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.

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

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

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

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

I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11. So that was when I was taken out of the school system... I think the longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.

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

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.

I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do.

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

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

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.

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

I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life -- I had amazing opportunities at a young age -- but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.

Harry Potter, to a point, will always define me, but I hope in the same way that Harrison Ford is defined by Star Wars.

I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.

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.

If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.

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

I have a very busy personality.

My preparation is mainly just knowing the lines and getting in and knowing where your character is, knowing what it's about and having ideas that you can put in on the day.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.

I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.

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

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

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

The American version of 'The Office' is fantastic.

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

I've worked every day since I was 10. I don't know how to do anything else. There is nothing else I'd rather be doing.

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.

You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed.

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.

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.

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.

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

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

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

If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans -- but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone -- you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

I don't really care about how I look.

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

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.

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

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

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

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

There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me.

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.'

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

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

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.

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.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

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.

The sixth Harry Potter film -- I don't like my performance in that film at all.

I haven't always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can't emerge from a franchise and do well, that's a very strong driving force.

People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.