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

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

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

Love Relationship

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

I Love Just Going Out And Sitting Down In The Park Along With The Thousands Of Other People Who Apparently Have No Work To Do During The Day. People Come Up To Me, But They Are Generally Really Nice. New York Makes It Easier, For Me At Least. People Manage To Be Enthusiastic And Sort Of Sane At The Same Time. And That’s Lovely.

I Like Science And I Love Gym. Oh, And I Like Art, But I'm Really Bad At It. I'm Just A Terrible Drawer. I Can't Draw A Circle. Even With A Ruler, I Can't Draw A Straight Line.

The Idea The Actors Are The Most Important People On A Film Set I Think Is Very Stupid. Actors Are The Most Replaceable People There. There Are Literally Millions Of Us. There's Very Few People That Can Operate A Steady-cam. The Numbers Are A Lot, Lot Fewer For That, You Know?

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

Unrequited Love

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

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

'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."

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 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.

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

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 Love Steve Carell And Will Ferrell - They're My Heroes.

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

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 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.

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.

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?'

I Really Enjoy Working Physically.

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.

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.

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 Think Harry Potter's Very Important. Every Opportunity I Will Get For The Rest Of My Life, I Would Not Have Got If It Wasn't For Harry Potter. And It Would Be Height Of Ingratitude If I Was Ever Anything But Proud To Be Associated With These Films.

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.

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.

Richard [griffiths] Was By My Side During Two Of The Most Important Moments Of My Career. In August 2000, Before Official Production Had Even Begun On Potter, We Filmed A Shot Outside The Dursleys', Which Was My First Ever Shot As Harry. I Was Nervous And He Made Me Feel At Ease. Seven Years Later, We Embarked On 'equus' Together. It Was My First Time Doing A Play But, Terrified As I Was, His Encouragement, Tutelage And Humor Made It A Joy. In Fact, Any Room He Walked Into Was Made Twice As Funny And Twice As Clever Just By His Presence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Magical Realism

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.

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 Not Clean Or Even Vaguely Pleasant To Be Around In A Domestic Situation.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I Would Consider Doing Any Part As Long As The Script Is Good And The Film Has An Interesting Director.

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

I Think Honesty Is The Most Heroic Quality One Can Aspire To.

I Didn't Have That Normal Teenage Period When You Build Up Your Friends In Your Area And You Have A Social Circle.

To The Children Who Loved Harry Potter, I Want To Say Your Enthusiasm Was The Real Magic. I So Enjoyed Being On The Journey With You. And To The Adults Who Bought The Harry Potter Books And Devoured Them, I Just Want To Say, Those Books Were For Children.

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'.

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 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.

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'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.

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 Have A Very Busy Personality.

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 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 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.

It's Very Rare That I Get Stopped Or Get Asked For An Autograph Or Anything - None Of Which I Mind - But People Don't Really Care That Much.

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

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

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

I'm Not Too Worried About Humanity In The Future. I Think We've Got An Innate Ability As A Species To Self-correct.

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

I Am A Frighteningly Thorough Person.

You Pick Projects For The Part, The Director, And The Script. I Just Want To Do Different, Interesting Stuff.

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

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

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.

Don't Try Too Hard To Be Something You're Not.

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

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.

There's No Shame In Enjoying The Quiet Life.

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."

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.

I'm Not Clumsy; Just Accident Prone.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm Always Amazed At The Way Some Actors' Behaviour Is Truly Disgusting. That's One Thing That Will Never Happen On One Of My Sets If I Ever Direct.

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

I Seem To Be A Long-term Relationship Kinda Guy.

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

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

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.

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 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.

Some Actresses Are Just Insane. I've Never Worked With A Nasty Actress - They're All Absolutely Delightful. But Completely Barking.

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

I Might Like To Be An Actor, But There Are Loads Of Other Things I'm Interested In As Well, Like Music And Writing And Sports. I Want To Keep My Options Open.

I'm Very Comfortable Discussing My Personal Life, Because It's So Boring.

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

I Would Say I Was Challenging The System Quite. But I Like To Think That If The Choices I Make Are Slightly Unexpected Or Challenging To People, Then That Is Good. We Are Definitely Three Fairly Like-minded People In Terms Of What We Value In Scripts And In Storytelling.

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 Get Constantly Mistaken For Elijah Wood. I Was In Japan And Someone Held Out A Photo Of Him For Me To Sign.

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

I Think I Have Just Always Had An Awareness That When You Go To A Premiere And People Start Cheering And Shouting Your Name And Stuff, They Are Shouting At A Perception Of You That They Have.

You Never Want To Be Forced To Do Something. But The World Around You Starts To Influence You In Ways You Never Expected.

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 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 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].

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 A Huge Fan Of Brad Pitt. He Could Have Done Rom-coms His Entire Career, But He Took It In A Different Direction.

The Nerds Are The Ones That Make The Films And Do Loads Of Other Really Cool Stuff In Their Life.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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?"

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

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

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.

Personally, I Prefer The Dark Side.

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.

Religion Leaves No Room For Human Complexity.

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.

The American Version Of 'the Office' Is Fantastic.

I'm 5-foot-5, And I'll Wear A Big Parka And Put The Hood Up, And Nobody Gives Me A Second Glance.

All It Takes Is For Me To Be Seen Chatting Up A Girl For [tabloids] To, You Know, Make Up Some Crappy Headline About Me Being A Sex Rat Or Whatever They Call It.

I've Always Had, Like, From The Age Of About 11, I've Had Such An Intolerance For Bad Behaviour Of Actors That I Don't Think I Was Ever Going To Be That Person.

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

My Job To Make Sure That Thing Is Kick-ass - Takes The Mold, Jumps On It, Throws Glitter All Over It, Smashes It, Kicks It Around, And Drops The Mic. If We Don't Do That, Then We Deserve Not To Have A Hit.

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 Mean I've Seen 3d Films So Far And I Think It's A Long Way To Go Before They Replace Actors. It's A Funny Thing With 3d, I Haven't Quite Got It Yet. Yet.

I Used To Be Self Conscious About My Height, But Then I Thought, F*** That, I'm Harry Potter.

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.

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.

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.

I've Been Working Since I Was 9, And I've Never Known A Life Without A Film Set.

There's Never Enough Time To Do Nothing!

I'm Not Much Of A Cake Person.

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!

There's No Shame In Enjoying A Quiet Life. And That's Been The Realization Of The Past Few Years For Me.

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

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 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.

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.

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

I'm Thrilled Of The Acceptance I Get Abroad. The People Are So Hearty, Warm And Grateful And I Feel Privileged Having Seen So Many Countries And Some Of The Greatest Monuments.

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

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

I Don't Know Where My Romanticism Comes From. My Mom And Dad Would Read To Me A Lot. 'treasure Island,' 'robinson Crusoe,' Tales Of Chivalry And Knights, Things Like That. Those Are The Stories I Loved Growing Up.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

If You Like The Book, You'll Hate The Movie.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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