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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.

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I'm Getting Better Now,

Daniel Radcliffe

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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.

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My Friends Have Always Called Me 'mr. Thorough,' In That When I Get Into Something, I Become Obsessed With It.

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.

The Master And Margarita Is My Favorite. To Me It’s The Greatest Exploration Of The Human Imagination.

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.

Because I'm Short And Slim, I Can Identify With Somebody Who's An Unlikely Fit For Something And Desperately Wants To Be Part Of It.

I Grew Up Listening To Show Tunes In The Back Of The Car.

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

I'm Not Clumsy, I'm Just Accident Prone.

Being Self-critical Is Good; Being Self-hating Is Destructive. There's A Very Fine Line There Somewhere, And I Walk It Carefully.

My Taste In The Films I've Taken As An Actor Is Similar To What I'd Do A Director Or Writer: All Quite Odd, Challenging Stuff, Slightly Off-the-wall.

A Friend Often Says I'm An Old Man In A Young Man's Husk. I Like That. I Am Old-fashioned In Some Ways.

And I'm Slightly In Love With Scarlett Johansson: She's Just Stunning. And She's Bright, Which Is Incredibly Sexy.

My Dad Believes In God, I Think. I'm Not Sure If My Mom Does. I Don't.

It's Interesting For Myself, Growing Up As An Asian-american Filmmaker. Coming Into The Industry, My Parents Always Said, "no One's Going To Give You The Opportunity. You Just Have To Do The Work. Be Better Than Everyone Else, So They Can't Deny It."

People Do Incredible Things For Love, Particularly For Unrequited Love.

Unrequited Love

Everyone On The Set Has A Mobile Phone, And I Found By Pushing A Few Buttons, They Could Be Programmed Into Different Languages. I Fixed Robbie's Coltrane To Speak In Turkish.

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.

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.

I Think Part Of Me Would Love To Play A Drag Queen, Just Because It Would Be An Excuse To Wear Loads Of Eye Makeup.

I Think It's Kind Of Great, To Be Honest. I'll Never Do Another Film [like Swiss Army Man] Where I Get To Talk About Those Things, So I Might As Well Enjoy It While I Can.

There's No Shame In Enjoying The Quiet Life.

I Think Pressure Is A Good Thing And It's Good To Be Able To Feel It And Use It And Experience The Feeling Of It And Especially If You Can Get Past It.

I Definitely Think The Idea Of Friend Zone Is Just Men Going, 'this Woman Won't Have Sex With Me.'

It's Important To Say That The More Challenging A Scene Is, In A Way, The More Fun It Is Because The More Of My Job I Get To Do.

Also I Just Think I've Been Lucky Enough To Have Great Parents, And I've Had Good People Around Me Who Have Always Been Honest With Me, Who Would Give Me A Purely Metaphorical Slap If I Ever Got Too Big For My Boots.

[i] Take Inspiration From Kids. ... They're Very Honest In How They Act And How They Are In The World.

I Want To Prove To People That I'm An Actor And Not Just A Character.

Being In Harry Potter Is Like Being In The Mafia. Once You Are In, You Are Never Really Out.

I Used To Joke I Was A Point-and-click Actor. My Whole Process Has Been About Trusting Your Instincts And Hitting Your Mark.

I Get Constantly Mistaken For Elijah Wood.

I'm Not Much Of A Cake Person.

One Of The Things That I Cannot Fathom Is Young Actors Who Will Not Audition And Won't Read.

I'm Into Weird Kind Of, Anything That Resembles Magical Realism.

Magical Realism

As Much As I Would Love To Be A Person That Goes To Parties And Has A Couple Of Drinks And Has A Nice Time - That Doesn't Work For Me. I Do That Very Unsuccessfully. I'd Just Rather Sit At Home And Read, Or Go Out To Dinner With Someone, Or Talk To Someone I Love, Or Talk To Somebody That Makes Me Laugh.

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.

No. I Can Quite Happily Say Someone Is Handsome, Good-looking, And I Can See Why Someone Would Want To F**k Them, But I've Never Felt That Way About A Man Myself. There Is That Moment In Your Late Teens When You Ask Yourself The Question, 'am I?' But I Wasn'twell, This Year I Have A Talent Crush On Ryan Gosling. I Think He's Fantastic And(ahem) You Know He'd Be Nice Afterwards. He Seems Smart. If I Was Gay, I Would Go For A Smart Man.

There Are Two Types Of Poets: People Who Write Poetically About Their Lives, And Poets That Live Poetically And Write About It.

I Don't Want Anyone To Ever Say That I Don't Belong Where I Am.

Obviously, I've Been Very Lucky In General In My Career, But I Feel That I've Been Very Lucky In Terms Of Having Directors Come Along At The Right Times Who Have Taken Me To The Next Level Of Where I Needed To Be.

My Dad's Got A Brilliant Eye For Scripts 'cos He's A Literary Agent. He And My Agent Read A Load Of Scripts And Filter Them.

And Well Historically It's Never Been A Good Thing To Compare Yourself To Biblical Characters.

It Was A Lot Of Fun To Play A Character [in Swiss Army Man] With No Inhibitions, And With No Knowledge Of The World, And Who Comes Into The World Kind Of Like A Blank Slate. It Means There's No Template Or Blueprint For How You Need To Play Certain Scenes.

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

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 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].

Some People Think I Am Gay, Which I Think Is Awesome.

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.

I Suppose Whenever You Go Through Periods Of Transition, Or In A Way, It's A Very Definite Closing Of A Certain Chapter Of Your Life. I Suppose Those Times Are Always Going To Be Both Very Upsetting And Also Very Exciting By The Very Nature Because Things Are Changing And You Don't Know What's Going To Happen.

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.

The Happiest I Ever Am Is Spending Time With A Group Of Really Good Friends. That's All I Aspire To In Life, Really.

I Wasn't The Most Popular Kid In School.

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.

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.

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.

I Will Never, Ever Do A Film As Successful As The Harry Potter Series. But Neither Will Anyone Else.

Yes, Gay Marriage Is About Symbolically Blessing A Relationship, But The Larger Issue Is About Transmitting A Fundamental Message About Equality. Gay People Should Have Equality In Law Everywhere.

I Remember Paul [dano] Had Said At One Point That When He Finished This Film [swiss Army Man] Was The Strongest He'd Ever Been Just From Lugging Me Around For [several] Weeks.

Normally I Sit There In The Films Really Hating Watching Myself. Loving Watching The Films, Hating Watching Myself.

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.

Every Job I Do, I Like To Think It Makes Me Better Or I Learn Things. It's All About How Much Something's Going To Stretch Me Or Test Me.

I Certainly Want To Establish Myself As An Actor In My Own Right, Rather Than Being Just The Actor Who Plays Harry Potter.

I Would Love To Work In America. I Wouldn't Love To Live There, But I'd Love To Experience Working There.

If You're Having A Bad Day, Get On With Your Job, Because You Having A Bad Day Can Affect Everyone Around You.

Having A Bad Day

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

I Just Have This Fear That I'll Get On Stage And There'll Be That Brief Moment Of Adrenalin And I'll Forget My Line.

It's Really Good To Talk About It [ Hydraulic Penises And Prosthetic Butts], And It's Very Gratifying When People Ask Us About The Other Aspects Of The Film [swiss Army Man], But [those Things] Are Part Of The Movie And They're Important And Hilarious, A Very Fun Part Of The Movie, So There's No Sense From Us Of Not Wanting To Talk About That. I Think It's Exciting That Those Things Exist In A Film That Is Also Very Heartfelt And Emotional And Profound.

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.

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 Had One Relative Who Passed Away But Fortunately None Others. So My Sort Of Experience Of It Is Quite Limited, Thankfully.

I'm Very Interested In Religion As Something To Study, But I'm Not A Religious Person In The Slightest.

The Thought Of Dancing Scared Me. A Lot. Because I Have Absolutely No Aptitude For It.

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.

We Sing A Lot Of The Soundtrack In This Film [swiss Army Man] - Me And Paul Dano - And On The Last Day Of Filming We Had To Just Get Into The Back Of Our Sound Mixer's Van And Record A Really Crappy, Rough Version Of The Singing Then. For Some Reason That Was One Of The Most Fun Days.

I'm Not A Religious Person. My Mom Was Of Jewish Blood And My Dad Was Protestant.

I'm Very Proud Of Being Jewish. It Means I Have A Good Work Ethic, And You Get Jewish Humour And You're Allowed To Tell Jewish Jokes.

I Am A Frighteningly Thorough Person.

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

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 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.

Harry Potter Star Daniel Radcliffe Has Confessed That Until Recently, He Thought The 16-year-old Fellow Tween Idol [justin Bieber] Was A Female. 'i Only Heard Justin Bieber For The First Time Two Weeks Ago. I Genuinely Thought It Was A Woman Singing. I'd Never Heard It Before. Is It Big In England Yet?'

There's An Incredible Comfort Level That I Have On Film Sets Because It's Where I've Grown Up.

Working Hard Is Important. But There Is Something That Matters Even More, Believing In Yourself.

What First Attracted Me To Doing Swiss Army Man Was Just How Mental It Was - How Insane And Wonderful And Original The Script Was.

I Have Described Myself As Being 'gently Eccentric.'

How Irritating It Must Be For People, To Be Bombarded With Me!

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.

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 Don't Think There's Anything That I Would Really Baulk At Doing On-screen. I Don't Think So. I've Got Certain Pet Peeves About Writing... My Pet Peeve About Reading Scripts Is When They Give You A Line Reading And There'll Be A Line But Next To Your Character's Name It'll Say 'very Angry'. But I'm Like: "well, I'll Decide That Actually!" So, There's Little Things Like That. That's A Slight Pet Peeve.

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.

I'm Possibly A Very Morbid Person But I Think About Death A Lot.

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 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 Seem To Be A Long-term Relationship Kinda Guy.

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.

Shyness Displays Itself Differently In Me. I Think It's More An Awkwardness.

I Think I'm Always Very Naïve. With 'kill Your Darlings' And 'horns', I'm Like, "why Wouldn't Everybody Love This?" But I Guess It's Going To Divide People In Some Ways. But If You're Willing To Go With It And Suspend Your Disbelief, You're Going To Get Something Amazing And Something Unlike Anything Else.

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.

Every Day I Would Come To Set [of Swiss Army Man] Going Like, "how Are We Going To Do This?".

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

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.

I Still Have Issues Around Forgetting That It's My Life And If I Want To Do Something, I Can Do It.

I Think One Of My Favorite Things To Do Is Just Lock Myself Up In A Small Room And Listen To Music And Watch Films For A Day. Also I Just Like Seeing My Friends. We Have Pizza Parties Which Means I Get Four Friends Round, We Eat A Pizza And We're Really Lazy And We Play Playstation.

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 Want To Write And Direct, But I Don't Think If I Did It For 100 Years I Would Ever Come Close To Putting Something Out There That Gives A Feeling Of All-encompassing And Joyous.

I Just Want To Keep Working, Really. I Just Want To Keep Acting. Playing One Part For A Very Long Time Builds Up In You A Desire To Play As Many Different Things As You Can.

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.

Keeping Secrets

I've Not Got A Girlfriend At The Moment. Somebody Said, 'do You Worry Girls Are Just Giving You Attention Because Of Who You Are?' I Was Like, 'i'm 17, It's Wonderful.'

Mostly, I'm Drawn To Great Characters And Great Worlds That Use Weird Things For Their Language - Whether It's Dance, Whether It's Pop Music With Justin Bieber, Or Whether It's Magic.

I've Learnt A Lot About Certain Things But You Also Learn Through Your Own Experience.

I Think Any Actor Worth Their Salt Wants To Show As Much Versatility As They Possibly Can.

What I Love About The Gay Thing Is That Every Single Person I Type Into Google, It Doesn't Matter If It's Florence Welch, Anybody, If You Are Not Being Called Gay You Don't Have A Career. That's My Theory!

I've Never Been One Of The Cool People At School, But Then Again, I Don't Get The People Who Are Cool. It's Not That I Don't Like Them, It's Just That They Don't Interest Me.

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.

There Were Some Parts Of The Film [swiss Army Man] That The Daniels [kwan And Scheinert] Really Wanted To Look As Elegant As A Piece Of Ballet. As Hank And Manny Go On In The Story, They Get Better And Better At Being With Each Other And More And More Adept - Hank Knows More And More What Manny's Going To Need At Any Given Point, And Having That Choreography Helps A Bit.

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

Those Things [t Hydraulic Penises And Prosthetic Butts And All That] Can Be What's Genuinely Shocking About The Movie [swiss Army Man] Because People Wouldn't Expect To Be Moved By Any Of It.

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.

If I Can Make A Career For Myself After Harry Potter, And It Goes Well, And Is Varied And With Longevity, Then That Puts To Bed The 'child Actors Argument'.

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 Think I'm A Tiny Bit Like Harry 'cos I'd Like To Have An Owl. Yeah, That's The Tiny Bit, Actually.

I'm Certainly Lucky To Have Got Famous Through Something That Was So Well Liked, Generally Speaking.

I Google Myself To See What Come Up When You Google Daniel Radcliffe Because That's Always Amusing.

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.

When Actors Aren't Filming They Just Go To Their Dressing Rooms And Relax.

The Art World Can Be Very Intimidating Because It's Just So Vast. You Talk To People Who Are Really Clued In To All The Young Artists And Coming Into It You're Never Going To Be Able To Catch Up Immediately, Even Though There's Pressure To.

A Gay Murder Movie Is Never Going To Be, Like, Breaking Box Office Records.

I Feel Like My Evolution Has Come To A Place Where Now I'm Attached To Crazy Rich Asians.

There Is Always This Thing Of Will You Get Too Old For Your Part? But People Are Playing A Lot Younger Than They Actually Are In Real Life. I Don't Think It's As Big An Issue As A Lot Of People Are Making It Out To Be.

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!

As An Artist, You Have A Path That You're On That Evolves With The Kinds Of Stories You Want To Tell.

The American Version Of 'the Office' Is Fantastic.

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.

I Am Very Critical! I Hate Watching Myself But I Know I Have To Because I'm Going To Be Asked So I Need To Have Some Sort Of Semblance Of What The Films With Me Are Like. But It's Not An Enjoyable Experience Watching Yourself. I Hate It Less Than I Used To But I Still Don't Enjoy It.

I'll Miss Some Of The Opportunities That Playing Harry [potter] Brought Me.

I Don't [believe In God]. I Have A Problem With Religion Or Anything Else That Says, 'we Have All The Answers,' Because There's No Such Thing As 'the Answers.' We're Complex. We Change Our Minds On Issues All The Time. Religion Leaves No Room For Human Complexity.

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.

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.

I Don't Think Of Those Things [from Farting, To Male On Male Affection, To Crossdressing] As Being Taboo, I Suppose, So It Didn't Strike Me As, "oh, I'm Breaking Boundaries And Stuff..."

I'd Love To Play Puck In 'a Midsummer Night's Dream.'

There's A Lot Of Work That Needs To Be Done, And There's A Difference Between Talking The Talk And Walking The Walk.

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.

The One Piece Of Advice I Would Give To Any Actor Is, If You Want To Go Out On The Street Without Being Recognised, Without Even Being Looked At, Go Out With A 6ft 8in Beautiful Transsexual. No One Gives You A Second Glance. Especially When You're 5ft 5in.

Though I Am Not Religious In The Least, I Am Very Proud To Be Jewish.

All These Things, Social Media Or [smart] Phones Or The Things That Distract Us From Each Other, Are Fairly New. They're All Fairly New Inventions, And I Think We're In A Stage Where We Sort Of As A Whole Have Gotten These New Toys And We're Just Obsessed With Playing With Them. I Feel Like After A Period Of Adjustment It Will Inevitably Be A Regression From Where We Are Now.

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.

I'm Not Looking For Sequels, But When Something Comes To You, And You're Already A Fan Of That World, You Have The Desire To Do It Your Way.

I Love Coming Home To Somebody, I Love Being In A Relationship.

Love Relationship

I Don't Know Why That Is, But English Politics Is Just So Overly White. It's Very Much About The Class Structure.

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.

I Haven’t Always Been Thrilled With My Work. But The Fear Of Not Proving The People Wrong Who Think You Can’t Emerge From A Franchise And Do Well, That’s A Very Strong Driving Force.

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.

It's Interesting Because People Assume That Because I'm Famous I Know All Famous People.

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.

As An Actor, I Think Sort Of Relish The Chance To Take A Leap And Sort Of Put Yourself Out There. You Know, It's, Like On Any Film, You Just Have To Be Willing To Embarrass Yourself, Because Otherwise You Are Not Going To Really Reveal Anything That You Have. So I Think It's Exciting.

I Definitely Want To Go On Acting For As Long As I Can Find Employment. I'm Never Happier Than When I'm On A Film Set. I Just Want To Keep Working.

I've Always Had A Slightly Overactive Imagination.

Overactive Imaginations

We Would Choreograph [ With Paul Dano] Before Each Scene [in Swiss Army Man] And Very Quickly Got To A Place Where We Could Improvise Physically In Scene And Know That The Other Person Would Respond In Character Appropriately. So That [dynamic] Was A Lot Of Fun.

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.

Amazing Opportunities

I Thought I Was An Actor Playing A Wizard. But Really, I Was A Wizard Playing An Actor.

Who Are The Executives, And What Are The Stories That Are Being Released? Not Just In Movie Theaters But Online. When You Watch Master Of None, You're Like, Yes, This Is Real Life To Me. These Are Refreshing Types Of Stories.

I Met Elijah Wood Once, I Met Peter Jackson, I Met Orlando Bloom, And They're All Really Cool.

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.

I’m An Atheist, And A Militant Atheist When Religion Starts Impacting On Legislation.

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.

I've Always Had Philosophy, Which Has Been Really Helpful For Me, Getting Into The Business. I Didn't Have Any Connections. I Didn't Know Anyone. It Was Just About My Work.

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.

My Parents Were What I Like To Call Proper Musical Fans. Lots Of Sondheim Was Played In The Car.

If I Die On A Film Set When I'm 80, I'll Be Happy With That.

I Pretty Much Left Full-time, Formal Education When I Was 11. So That Was When I Was Taken Out Of The School System... I Think The Longest Stretch I Would Go Back For Was A Term And A Half When I Was About 14.

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.

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.

I Would Like To Initiate An Initiative - The Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

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.

Sometimes You Can't Help But Pay Attention To What Is Written About You. You Are Trying Not To Because It's Generally Not Constructive, It Can Be Very Funny, In Which Case It's Fine To Pay Attention To It If You're Going To Laugh About It. But If It's Going To Get You Angry Then It's A Pretty Pointless Waste Of Energy, So I Try And Be Selective About What I Take An Interest In About Myself.

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

I Just Got Asked By Another Journalist 'are You A Feminist?' And I Was Just Like... Is There A Strange Thing At The Moment Where You Have To Come Out As A Feminist? I've Been Asked If I'm A Feminist So Many Times Recently, And I'm Just Like 'yes, Yes, For God's Sake, Yes! Is There Something That I Give Off That Says I'm Not?'

I Think Of Myself As Being Jewish And Irish, Despite The Fact That I'm English.

I Have No Idea How Much Money I've Got.

I Think That The Process Of Making A Film Is An Underrated Factor In How That Film Turns Out.

I Really Enjoy Working Physically.

To Be Honest, I Would Like To Have Worked With Peter Sellers, Because When People Talk About Classic British Actors, You Talk About Lawrence Olivier, And Peter Sellers Was Just In The Most Amazing Films.

This Is Only Going To Add Fuel To The Fire That I'm Gay. I Don't Really Care. I'm So Past The Point Of Caring. I Really Don't. But I Looked Fantastic In Fleur's Outfit!

With Any Kind Of Artistic Thing, It's A Muscle, Like Any Athlete, And The Moment You're Not Doing It, You Lose All Confidence. That's Why I'm Terrible With Down Time.

I Don't Think That You Necessarily Need A Certain Type Of Background To Take On Roles. You See Actors From Very, Very Privileged Backgrounds Playing Working Class Characters And Vice-versa. I Don't Think Your Background Limits You As To What You Can Do.

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 Quite Confident, But I Don't Fancy Myself. I Don't Really Care About How I Look.

I'm Possibly A Very Morbid Person But I Think About Death A Lot. I Don't Know If It's Maybe From Being On Films That's Often Playing Harry [potter] Or I Just Think It's A Natural Thing That I Have. It's Something That I Think About Just Because It's Fascinating In A Very Alien Kind Of Way.

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.

In Some Ways, You Get To Find Your Voice Better In [a Sequel] Because You Have To Define How You're Doing It Differently.

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.

'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."

The Sixth Harry Potter Film - I Don't Like My Performance In That Film At All.

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.

Paul [dano] Was Amazing At Carrying Me Around [in Swiss Army Man]. I Wanted To Be There As Much As Possible But Didn't Want To Hurt Paul's Back, But Paul Often Chose Me Over The Dummy Many Times On The Set. But Yeah, To Be Honest, A Little Bit Of Preparation I Did With My Friend In My Flat Could Never Have Prepared Me For Quite The Level Of Physical Reliance We Would Have On Each Other.

I've Done Seven Movies In Eight Years, And With Each Movie I Feel Like I'm Learning A Lot. I'm Still Young-ish, So I Still Feel Like I'm In The Zone Of Learning And Creating. Those Are The Perfect Places To Do That. And In A Weird Way, You Have A Lot Of Freedom.

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.

Invisibility Cloak

The Real Challenge Of Acting For Me, I Suppose, Is Just Getting To Know A Character Very, Very Well And Just Applying What I Know About Them To Every Single Scene. That's What It Can Be Broken Down To.

There's Never Enough Time To Do Nothing!

Franchises Aren't To Be Avoided. They Can Be Exciting, And They Give You Opportunities To Do Other Films.

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