Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?

It used to be that I wanted to be taller. Once I made 5-foot-1, I was happy.

Some advice I would give myself from the Spirit Squad years - try and get taller.

As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used to be slouching. Eventually, I realized my height was something I couldn't control, so I might as well accept it. I've certainly turned it into a positive, because without my height I probably wouldn't be as good of a tennis player. It's a gift, and I've made something of it.

I was fat! I was pustule-rich! I looked like a pink human grenade! When did I blossom into the irresistible little orchid that I am now? I don't know. Getting taller helps. It spreads out a bit.

I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.

I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human.

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.

The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

In the beginning, I was riddled with major complexes about my looks. Even now, here and there, these complexes crop up. But as the days progressed, I learnt to handle them much better.

Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.

If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

I used to be unusually short, and I think I'd prefer that to being unusually tall.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

I'm too small and too short. I thought that was odd; that should be a non-issue to me.

I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

I just think we need to have a little sense of humor about yourself and just live and learn, take some chances.

I am too fat and tall to be a jockey. This is not self-deprecation - I realise that I am neither too fat nor too tall - but I am too fat and too tall to be a jockey.