Daniel -> Biography/All about Dan -> facts and quotes

Here you can find great things that Daniel had said in interviews during the years and more great facts about him.

Facts
- Daniel would rather play cricket for England than be a movie star.
- Daniel said he's missed two days of work in seven years of Harry Potter films – for gastric flu.
- He loves to write, listen to music, read, play on his PlayStation and study bass guitar.
- Daniel’s favorite “Harry Potter” book is “Prisoner of Azkaban” (the third book)
- Daniel speaks Spanish
- Favorite classes are English Literature, Religion and History.
- Daniel admits that his biggest challenge is girls — and he often gets tongue-tied.
- Daniel's favorite alcohol is tequila
- Although he lives in an apartment by himself, Daniel will still take his laundry to his mother — he also hates ironing
- He loves to write short stories and poetry, and has even published a few poems under the pen name Jacob Gershon. He does not aspire to write novels, because he doesn’t think he has the stamina.
- Daniel defines himself as a “long-term relationship” person and a romantic.
- Daniel does not plan going to university, but instead sticking with his acting career.
- Daniel suffers from dyspraxia, which affects his hand-eye coordination.
- He can rotate his arm 360 degrees.

Quotes
Daniel Radcliffe doesn't like to watch himself in roles. When he sees himself, he thinks, "'God you've got a stupid mouth,' anything, just totally negative criticism, basically," he told the AP.

Daniel Radcliffe's best friend on set "is a 41-year-old guy who works in costume and has got two kids,"The Guardian. He told In the Harry Potter films, Daniel Radcliffe was "always getting in trouble for scratching my forehead and knocking the scar off," he told the Newark Star-Ledger.
"In theory Im naked underneath"

“Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.”

“In England, there's so much history that you feel a part of history even when you're really not,”
“I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls, ... I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.”
“One of the things that has been amazing has been my parents, who have kept me completely grounded the whole time and I've never got big-headed or anything. This has given me a feeling of confidence, ... which I might not have had otherwise.”
about his Harry Potter experience
"I cried when I saw my name in the end credits!"

I've always believed in magic, a hundred percent. I'm fascinated by it"

"All it takes is for me to be seen chatting up a girl for [tabloids] to, you know, make up some crappy headline about me being a sex rat or whatever they call it"
Why he doesn't go to nightclubs, quoted in Details magazine August 2007.

"There's never enough time to do nothing"
"I was tensing my stomach muscles for about two hours - I almost fainted!"
(Talking about the Equus shoot)

"I don't particularly wear my heart on my sleeve, you know, or tell people how I feel all the time."
"Pain comes with the extremes of passion and the passion that must be given up."
"Playing the role of Alan Strang will remain one of the greatest experiences of my life."
(about Equus)

Daniel, who had come straight from the Harry Potter set, was asked about Harry's scar, "I see no scar, are you really the boy who defeated the Dark One?" asked Stephen Fry. Daniel replied "Yes, but I've left it in the dressing room".

It's surreal to have everyone shouting my name, but everybody on the set and everybody here has made it feel so easy for me." (about screaming people at a premiere)

"I played a trick on the make-up department where I put a fake blood capsule im my mouth, pretended to trip on the stairs and let the blood come out of my mouth. They really fell for it, then they chased after me with a water pistol"

"Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's to speak in Turkish."

"I'm not clumsy, I'm accident-prone!"

"I'd love to play a drag queen or transvestite, but not just because of the costumes. Wait, what am I saying? Yes, because of the costumes! If the script was good - I wouldn't just do it because I got to dress up. Although I maintain that I look good with eye make-up. And I'm not going to be an emo kid, so the only other option is drag queen."

sources: Extra TV (WarnerBros.com), Thinkexist.com