Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

People are usually so disappointed with book-to-movie translations.

In grad school, I took a workshop with Scott Spencer, whose excellent novel 'Endless Love' had just been turned into a film. We students were in awe of his prestige. Yet Scott himself was chagrined; for good reason, he hated the movie.

Losing a fantasy is much harder than losing a reality.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.

I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.

I sought trains; I found passengers.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.