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Every Day The Daniels [kwan And Scheinert] Would Come Up With Some Amazing Solution And [make It Easy] To Put Yourself In Their Hands. There's Something Really Lovely About Knowing You're Working With Directors Who Know Exactly What They Want And Exactly What They're Looking For, And They're Not Going To Move On Until They Have It. That, As An Actor, Frees You Up A Lot Because You Can [try Different Approaches] And They'll Only Use What's Appropriate.

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Every Day The Daniels

Daniel Radcliffe

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Every Day The Daniels [kwan And Scheinert] Would Come Up With Some Amazing Solution And [make It Easy] To Put Yourself In Their Hands. There's Something Really Lovely About Knowing You're Working With Directors Who Know Exactly What They Want And Exactly What They're Looking For, And They're Not Going To Move On Until They Have It. That, As An Actor, Frees You Up A Lot Because You Can [try Different Approaches] And They'll Only Use What's Appropriate.

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Acting Is Really Instinctual And I Think You Can Overanalyse What You're Doing. A Lot Of It Has To Be Based On Instinct.

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Keeping Secrets

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I See Myself Doing Harry Potter Films As Long As I'm Enjoying It And As Long As They Are Going To Challenge Me As An Actor. I Want To Be An Actor - It's My Aspiration - So I Want To Do Other Films. I Want To Write Something And I Want To Direct Something!

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I Think It Speaks To The Fact That Other People Are As Excited About Originality As We Are. I Think The Thing That Has Been Wonderfully Communicated In The Trailers And All The Promotion For The Movie [swiss Army Man] Is That It Isn't Like Anything Else You've Ever Seen, And We're Not Just Saying That. I Think That Excites People.

When You Get As Lucky As I Got, You Have To Work As Hard As Possible To Earn That Luck.

I Know I'm Not A Coal Miner, But I Do Long Hours And I Never Complain, And There Is Nowhere Else I'd Rather Be. So, Yeah, That's How I'd Define Myself. I Want To Do It Right, And Prove People Wrong Once And For All About The Myth Of Child Stars.

If You're On A Date And Somebody Comes Up And Says, "oh, I Loved You In Harry Potter," It's A Bit Weird, Because You Suddenly Start Thinking, "oh, God. Is This Weird For The Other Person I'm Here With, Or Is This Weird For My Family?" But Generally Speaking, I Don't Really Think Because I Was Thrown Into It So Young And Kind Of Always Had That, It's Just Something You Get Used To. And Most Of The Time... It Was Interesting.

Once Now You See Me Proved That That Tone Could Work, Which I'm Sure Was A Nightmare For Them In Post - Is This Too Serious? Do We Have To Say That Magic Really Does Exist Or Not? - I Can Take That And Have Fun With The Tone That They Established.

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.

As An Actor, There Is Room For A Certain Amount Of Creativity, But You're Always Ultimately Going To Be Saying Somebody Else's Words. 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.

I Was Very Much A Product Of The Public-school System. There Was Only One Other Kid In My Class Who Had Parents Not Involved In The Stock Market Or Law.

I Think Any Man Who Says He Has Never Had An Awkward Moment With A Girl, Is A Liar Or He's Delusional Because He's Sitting There Thinking He Is Doing Really Well And The Girl Is Thinking "who Is This Man And Why Is He Talking To Me?"

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 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.

Part Of An Actor's Job Is To Find Correlations Between Your Own Life And The Life Of The Person You Are Playing.

I Think I Tried To Steal A Mars Bar Once From A Shop But Then I Went And Put It Back.

Dane Dehaan, Certainly, Is Kind Of The Best Friend I've Made Through Acting, In Terms Of Another Actor. He's Fantastic.

I Could Never Do Stand-up Because It's That Thing Of Having To Get Up On Stage. And Out Of Every 10 Jokes You Tell, Nine Of Them Have To Get A Really Good Response.

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.

A Hero Is Also Someone Who, In Their Day To Day Interactions With The World, Despite All The Pain, Uncertainty And Doubt That Can Plague Us, Is Resiliently And Unashamedly Themselves. If You Can Wake Up Every Day And Be Emotionally Open And Honest Regardless Of What You Get Back From The World Then You Can Be The Hero Of Your Own Story. Each And Every Person Who Can Say That Despite Life’s Various Buffetings That They Are Proud To Be The Person They Are Is A Hero.

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 Think It Was Pretty Obvious Early On That We Had Both Come With Kind Of The Same Attitude Of "let's Just [jump] In," And Neither Of Us Was Going To Be Precious About It. I Feel Like The Thing That We Learned Is, Weirdly, The Most Intimate Thing Or A Very Intimate Thing You Can Do To Somebody Is Hold Their Tongue With Your Fingers. When Paul [dano] Is Making Me Talk [in Swiss Army Man].

Just Keep Acting Is My Plan, I Just Want To Keep Going For As Long As I Can. I've Had A Fantastic Time On Potter, I Will Be Very Sad To Leave It Because Every Time I Look Back On One Of These Films, Every Scene I Watch Will Be Forever Linked To A Memory Of What Happened That Day Or Something That Was Happening Around That Time In My Life.

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.

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The Only Thing I Can Think Of Is My Favorite Album At The Moment By This Guy Called Father John Misty, And The Album Is Called I Love You, Honeybear. It's Just Brilliant. It's The Album I'm Currently Obsessed With. It Is Original, And The Lyrics Are Fantastic And [it's] Brilliant. So That's Blowing Me Away.

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To Be Fair, It's Not Even The First Time I've Seen A Dead Version Of Myself. There Was One On Harry Potter, On The Last Movie, That They Actually Used To Bring To Set In A Body Bag.

'insane Farting Corpse' Is A Really Hard Movie To Do A Q&a For. The Audience Is Still Kind Of Reeling And Being Like, "i Don't Know What To Ask."

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.

I'm Not An Easy Person To Love. 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.

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.

You Don't Have To Be Gay To Be A Supporter- You Just Have To Be A Human.

And The People I'm Best Friends With On The Films Are Not Generally The Actors.

Realizing That Other People Have A Problem With [homosexuality] Was The Weirdest Thing For Me. As A Kid It Wasn't Even Something That Was Mentioned. It Was Never Something That Was Even Explained To Me. It Was Just, "that's Mark And He's Gay." Mark Was Just Another Friend Of My Dad's Who Would Talk About His Boyfriend Instead Of His Girlfriend. I Was 5. I Didn't Care. It Seemed Perfectly Normal, And Still Does.

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.

Religion Leaves No Room For Human Complexity.

I'm Also A Fan Of Ridiculously Coloured And Patterned Socks.

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.'

Not Good Enough

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 Think Being On A Film Set For Such A Long Time Made Me A Technical Actor Without Realizing It.

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.

Fans Are Really Important For Me. And If They Take Pains To Write Me, It's The Minimum That I Answer Myself.

It's Almost A Problem How Much I Enjoy My Work.

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