Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.

I was a freshman and auditioned for the school play. Freshmen usually never got cast. I was the first freshman to be actually given a legitimate part and it was that feeling of 'Wow! I broke the system!'

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

I think maybe there's a part of me that needs adversity from the rest of the world in order to feel motivated to want to prove people wrong. I need people to be like, 'What is this weirdo doing?'

I am not merely a baseball player. I am a black man who has done what he wants, gotten what he wanted, and will continue to get it.

I was painfully shy as a child; I was dyslexic. I had a single mother who's an immigrant. I just didn't believe acting was something that people like me could do on a professional level.

I feel like I've been proving people wrong all my life.

The people I'm drawn to are sort of self-created. They came from backgrounds where not much was expected of them, necessarily.

Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?

All I would say is it doesn't matter where you come from. Like, Jim Sheridan comes from the inner city, and he's one of the top ones, a top lad.

I wanted to prove to people it doesn't matter if you come from a small little island: that you can make it in this industry.

I have never been an easy fit. I'm a leading lady character actor; I don't fit in one slot simply.

I have learned that you can do anything you want to. They used to ask me if I thought the first lady ought to be paid. If you get paid, then I have to do what first lady is supposed to do. But you can do anything you want to, and it's such a great soap box.

I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter - I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.

I'm just a genetic freak, but it has never stopped me from doing whatever I want to.

I didn't have the courage to let myself think or dream of acting because I come from Luxembourg - it's a very small country, and I think it's a place you need to get away from to see how big the world is and what's possible.

For a woman who didn't want to be an actress, who is too tall, lanky, shy, and who didn't fit into a Hindi conventional heroine, I am overwhelmed that my audiences have accepted me in India and the world.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

The odds were against us being an all-female garage band from California.

Girls, we have to go 10 times harder than guys. We are still expected to give you the bars, give you the look, give you the routine. This is me - I wanna be a rapper, this is it.