Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

Daring to love someone is something we all do.

A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

I'm in love with love, so I'm always taking risks! I think it's part of love, taking risks.

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing yourself to really go there and really feel those things is extremely scary.

The hardest thing to get is true emotion. I always believe you need to earn that with the audience. You can't just tell them, 'Ok, be sad now.'

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.

When you're feeling very comfortable with an actor, you are doing nothing.

I'd rather trust nine people and have the 10th one stab me in the back. I'd take that fall in order to have those nine friendships or working relationships instead of having none. That's not living.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

Marriage is a risk; I think it's a great and glorious risk, as long as you embark on the adventure in the same spirit.

I mean, I come from a hippie mentality where I just think to know someone, you need to look into their eyes. Eyes are so important. Until they start melon-balling eyes out, I won't be able to get to know someone another way.