Top 180 Daniel Radcliffe Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you’re doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

103. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

104. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

105. “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

106. “I’m certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

107. “I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell – they’re my heroes.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

108. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

109. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

111. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

112. “Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

114. “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

115. “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!”

— Daniel Radcliffe

116. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

117. “I would like to initiate an initiative – the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

118. “I’m getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says ‘I’ve never had an awkward moment with a girl’ is a liar.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

119. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

120. “I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I’ve discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

121. “I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I’m English.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

122. “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

123. “I am a frighteningly thorough person.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

126. “It’s interesting because people assume that because I’m famous I know all famous people.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

127. “I’m the only kid in the world who doesn’t want an eighth Harry Potter book.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

128. “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

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

130. “I don’t really care about how I look.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

131. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

132. “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

133. “I know it wouldn’t seem like I’ve had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, ‘That’s not good enough.’”

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

135. “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

136. “I’m possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

137. “I take things in better when I’m allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

138. “I didn’t have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

139. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

140. “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

141. “The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

142. “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

143. “I’ve been working since I was 9, and I’ve never known a life without a film set.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

144. “Franchises aren’t to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

145. “I’ve learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

146. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Daniel Radcliffe

148. “I met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they’re all really cool.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

149. “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.”

— Daniel Radcliffe

150. “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