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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.

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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.

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

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 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?'

Some People Are Asking Me Questions Like This Is A More Shocking Subject, Which Is So Strange.

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm Not Clumsy; Just Accident Prone.

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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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Amazing Opportunities

As Far As I Can Tell, Most Actors' Main Motivation Is Self-doubt And Neuroses.

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 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

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

Go Boldly And Honestly Through The World. Learn To Love The Fact That There Is Nobody Else Quite Like You.

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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.

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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?

I Don't Really Care About How I Look.

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!

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

Religion Leaves No Room For Human Complexity.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Well, I Think I’m A Feminist, Just By The Virtue Of The Fact That I Believe In Equal Rights For Everyone.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Magical Realism

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

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 Am A Frighteningly Thorough Person.

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.

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

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

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

I'll Say American For Now. I Really Have No Preference, Though. Nationality Is Nothing. It's All About The Girl - But She Has To Be Curvy!

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.

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.

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.

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'm Somebody Who Is Very, Very Proud To Have Been A Part Of The British Film Industry All My Life And To Have Kind Of Been Involved With A Very Important Piece Of British Film History.

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.

'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'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.

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!

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

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.

There's Never Enough Time To Do Nothing!

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

Love Relationship

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I Really Enjoy Working Physically.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I Was Very Sad To Leave Harry Potter But Equally There Will Be An Element Of Excitement About The Idea That A Script Might Come In And I Don't Have To Go: "i'm Sorry, I'm Kind Of Busy For The Next Four Years." The Idea Of That Is Quite Exciting.

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.

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

Unrequited Love

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?'

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.

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

I Take Things In Better When I'm Allowed To Talk, And Respond, And Engage And Move Around A Bit.

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.

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.

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.

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

I Get Constantly Mistaken For Elijah Wood.

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

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."

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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?"

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 Have Described Myself As Being 'gently Eccentric.'

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

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.

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

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

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'm Not Much Of A Cake Person.

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

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

I Don't Know What To Do With It. I'm Very Fortunate To Have It, And It Gives You Room To Maneuver. But The Main Thing About Having Money Is It Means You Don't Have To Worry About It. And That For Me Is A Lovely Thing. It's Not For Fast Cars And Hookers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'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've Always Had A Slightly Overactive Imagination.

Overactive Imaginations

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

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.

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

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