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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.

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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.

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A Lot Of Modern Horror Can Leave Me Cold, And I'm Not Good With Blood And Gore And All That Stuff. It's Not Fun For Me. There's Nothing Entertaining About Watching A Film Like That.

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

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?'

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

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.

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

How Irritating It Must Be For People, To Be Bombarded 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.

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 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

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.

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

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

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."

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