Everyone always seems amazed that I'm not a raging monster as a human being from growing up in the industry so young, the only people that aren't amazed by that are people who know my parents because, I'm there son so it makes sense that I would turn out okay. I owe them my sanity and they're amazing.

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I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn't strike me as, "Oh, I'm breaking boundaries and stuff..."

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males stuff thinking

I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me.'

Daniel Radcliffe

men sex thinking

I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy!

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curvy preference girl

Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely.

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waste would-be directors

I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing... my pet peeve about reading scripts is when they give you a line reading and there'll be a line but next to your character's name it'll say 'very angry'. But I'm like: "Well, I'll decide that actually!" So, there's little things like that. That's a slight pet peeve.

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reading writing character

Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get emotional just from the beauty of words.

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ability emotional poetry-is

People tell me I look mournful. They say, "Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!" Sometimes, I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person.

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space cheer people

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

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real self long

What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence Welch, anybody, if you are not being called gay you don't have a career. That's my theory!

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google gay careers

I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing.

Daniel Radcliffe

amusing google come-up

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

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structure white class

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

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slim fit want

In some ways, you get to find your voice better in [a sequel] because you have to define how you're doing it differently.

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sequels voice way

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.

Daniel Radcliffe

exploration my-favorite imagination

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

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actors character people

I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

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issues want forget

No. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don't see the use of the monarchy though I'm fierce patriot. I'm proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country.

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use country thinking

I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism.

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magical-realism realism kind

This is only going to add fuel to the fire that I'm gay. I don't really care. I'm so past the point of caring. I really don't. But I looked fantastic in Fleur's outfit!

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gay caring past

We would choreograph [ with Paul Dano] before each scene [in Swiss Army Man] and very quickly got to a place where we could improvise physically in scene and know that the other person would respond in character appropriately. So that [dynamic] was a lot of fun.

Daniel Radcliffe

army fun character