Quotes from Daniel Radcliffe

I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit.

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 don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.

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

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

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

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

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 met Elijah Wood once, I met Peter Jackson, I met Orlando Bloom, and they're all really cool.

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

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.