Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

I think the only thing I've got going for me as an actor specifically is the fact that I can change.

I think for a lot of people that had seen me do 'Snabba Cash', after watching 'The Killing,' I think they got a sense that I could do different kinds of characters.

I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it.

I guess you can say that every actor is a 'character actor' on some level. But I think some actors have a wider range. I think that's how you get that mantle.

My talents fall within definite limitations. I am not as versatile an actress as some think.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they're unlike me, the better I like it.

Every actor has a strength, and sometimes you just respond to things that you see yourself better at. I'm aware of what I can and can't do.

There are lots of actors who are posh and stick with that, and there are lots of actors who are cockney, and that's what they do. That's fine, but I don't think that could be said about me.

If Brando can do Capote and I can do Brando - well then, I can do Capote.

I wouldn't want to be associated with one character, because I want to be able to do different roles.

I think I have proven that I can play any type of character.

I'm looking forward to playing some really despicable characters at some point in my career so I can branch out and stretch those acting muscles. But I wouldn't want to do that on a regular basis.

An actor who is good at comedy can also be very good at drama, but not necessarily vice versa.

Joan Cusack is one of my favorite comedic actresses, and every part she plays is so different. She does the wackiest stuff and somehow it works. I like watching her a lot, and I think you can always go further and pull back. That's something I really have to work on.

The ability to stretch my range into all genres and characters is something I take great pleasure in doing. I thoroughly enjoy it. I consider myself a character actor, though some think of me as a leading man. As an actor, I love shifting gears from character to character, and the more range I can expand, the better.

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.

I admire actors that consistently challenge themselves and play a wide range of different roles. Every actor has a reason for being an actor... it's boring to play the same person over and over again. People like Daniel Day Lewis, who completely transform time and time again, I look up to.

When I was a young actor... the more different you were from the part you played, the more talent it reflected.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

Every actor wants to be everybody - play all the roles.

I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.

I love seeing when actors go from one genre to the next because I feel like most of them can pull it off.

It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

If I'm going to be honest with you, when I trained at school, I feel like I was training to be a chameleon. I want to be that versatile actor who can do anything - that's why you learn fifty different dialects, you do Shakespeare, you do commedia, you do it all so that if any job comes your way, you should be able to do it.