I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy.
— Daniel Radcliffe
When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.
What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing.
I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction.
I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.
I am a frighteningly thorough person.
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.
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.
I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter.
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 feel very English in a suit. There's something about being in a suit abroad, particularly in America, that feels empowering.
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 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.
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.
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.
I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.
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.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different.
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.
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.
I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.
I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.
The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.
Because of the life I've had, I'd grown up quicker than most people.
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.
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.
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.
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. Funny ironing board covers - I hate them.
I have quite a rich inner life, and I'm constantly looking for a way to express that. I haven't found it yet in acting. When you're playing a character, you're only going to find outlets for very specific parts of your inner world.
I definitely think that theatre is something I'll keep coming back to in my career for as long as I can. I also think theatre's something you have to be very fit to do. I am fairly fit, but I don't think I could do it all the time.
It's almost a problem how much I enjoy my work.
I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.
Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.
Dane DeHaan, certainly, is kind of the best friend I've made through acting, in terms of another actor. He's fantastic.
There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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.
I'm quite confident, but I don't fancy myself. I don't really care about how I look.
The American version of 'The Office' is fantastic.
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.'
I didn't have that normal teenage period when you build up your friends in your area and you have a social circle.
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.
There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.
