Quotes By Daniel Radcliffe

I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

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.

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

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.

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.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.

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.

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

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

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.

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

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

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.

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

Personally, I prefer the dark side.

I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.

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

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

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

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 see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!

I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone!

Also I just think I've been lucky enough to have great parents, and I've had good people around me who have always been honest with me, who would give me a purely metaphorical slap if I ever got too big for my boots.

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

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

I think it's useful, as a famous person, to have as little separation between the perception of you and how you really are - because otherwise I'd be sitting here thinking I'm keeping secrets, and wondering when you're going to find out.

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. 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.