Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.

There's nothing more thrilling than watching great actors say things that you wrote and bring them to life.

Acting is probably what I'm best at, but there are certain stories kind of rattling around in my head that I like the idea of developing over time.

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

Acting is my first focus, but at the core, I'm a storyteller, and however that comes out is fine with me.

Novels will remain my meat and potatoes, what sustain me imaginatively.

I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I was always in love with film and becoming a character and playing something else, and nobody ever told me no, so I just followed it, and here I am, having a ton of fun.

I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

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.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction, and especially novels, but I'm a writer... I write poetry and essays and criticism and I'd love to write a whole play, and sometimes I even write scripts.

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

I try not to think too much about where my voice comes from. I'm channeling characters and emotion to come up with beautiful words that tell a story.

I wanted to be a story teller so badly.