Quotes from Daniel Radcliffe

And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

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.

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.

People tell me I look mournful. They say, 'Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!' Sometimes I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

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.

There's never enough time to do nothing!

Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.

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

I've been working since I was 9, and I've never known a life without a film set.

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

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

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.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

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

When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

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.

I'm sure when I have a nostalgic, teary moment in 10 years time, I'll try to put the glasses when I was 10 on and cry to myself in front of the mirror

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.

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.