The Best Daniel Radcliffe quotes

There’s never enough time to do nothing! — 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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs–I’m not. I’m just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time. — Daniel Radcliffe

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

Because of the life I’ve had, I’d grown up quicker than most people. — Daniel Radcliffe

There’s no shame in enjoying the quiet life. — Daniel Radcliffe

There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

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

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

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

As far as I can tell, most actors’ main motivation is self–doubt and neuroses. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell–they’re my heroes. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

I’d love to play Puck in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ — Daniel Radcliffe

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I’m slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she’s just stunning. And she’s bright, which is incredibly sexy. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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! — Daniel Radcliffe

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

I want to prove to people that I’m an actor and not just a character. — Daniel Radcliffe

When actors aren’t filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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’. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don’t want to hurt each other. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

Maybe it’s a compliment to the film that you can’t do that with it, that it can’t be explained in 15 seconds. — Daniel Radcliffe

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

The sixth Harry Potter film–I don’t like my performance in that film at all. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

I would consIder doIng any part as long as the scrIpt Is good and the fIlm has an InterestIng dIrector. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

I’m somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history. — Daniel Radcliffe

I mean I’ve seen 3D films so far and I think it’s a long way to go before they replace actors. It’s a funny thing with 3D, I haven’t quite got it yet. Yet. — Daniel Radcliffe

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

Franchises aren’t to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films. — Daniel Radcliffe

I’ve been working since I was 9, and I’ve never known a life without a film set. — Daniel Radcliffe

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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. — 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. — Daniel Radcliffe

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

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

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. — Daniel Radcliffe

I don’t think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn’t strike me as, ‘Oh, I’m breaking boundaries and stuff… — Daniel Radcliffe

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

My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I’m a massive quiz show person. — Daniel Radcliffe