Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

Academically, I was thick. School wasn't bad, but I was.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

I was a very, very slow learner. I was good at nothing.

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

I was a horrible student.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

To the outside world, I was pretty bad at everything my whole life. People didn't credit me for my musicianship.

I was a terrible student.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the class. But I wasn't dilatory, I worked like crazy.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.

What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

When I was in grade school, my teachers decided I was just about the dumbest thing to come through the door in a long time. Whatever the lesson, whatever the subject, I would sit and listen to them with a lost, glassy-eyed expression on my face.