Daniel Radcliffe
I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Trust
I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this.Collection: Faith
I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers.Collection: Car
I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Diet
It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Dad
I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.Collection: Romantic
My parents are left-wing, and I would describe myself as that. But also, you know what? I wouldn't describe myself as that. Because I don't have to. Because I'm not a political party. Most people are a little bit of each, and we change our mind on various issues.Collection: Change
My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Car
Religion leaves no room for human complexity.Collection: Religion
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.Collection: Learning
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.Collection: Famous
As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.Collection: Home
I've always had a slightly overactive imagination.Collection: Imagination
The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Freedom
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.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Science
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.Collection: Dad
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.
As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.
I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11, so that was when I was taken out of the school system... The longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14.
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.
My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.
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.
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.
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.
Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.
I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.
I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.
I just have this fear that I'll get on stage and there'll be that brief moment of adrenalin and I'll forget my line.
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'm always amazed at the way some actors' behaviour is truly disgusting. That's one thing that will never happen on one of my sets if I ever direct.
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 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.
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.
Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.
Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be.
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.
I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.
There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don't think that the actors should be any different.
I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
I always saw Michael Gambon wearing madly psychedelic socks, and I always thought that's it is one of the few areas where men can really express colour and have a bit of a dandyish quality to their outfit.
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 didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.