Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has confessed that until recently, he thought the 16-year-old fellow tween idol [Justin Bieber] was a female. 'I only heard Justin Bieber for the first time two weeks ago. I genuinely thought it was a woman singing. I'd never heard it before. Is it big in England yet?'

Daniel Radcliffe

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Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

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I meet hundreds of people, and I'm not going to remember them. But every single one of them will remember their interaction with me.

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I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring.

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discussing boring comfortable

Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself.

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important matter believe

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

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shame enjoy quiet

Just keep acting is my plan, I just want to keep going for as long as I can. I've had a fantastic time on Potter, I will be very sad to leave it because every time I look back on one of these films, every scene I watch will be forever linked to a memory of what happened that day or something that was happening around that time in my life.

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forever memories long

Don't try too hard to be something you're not.

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hard trying

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

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artist stories want

As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time - that doesn't work for me. I do that very unsuccessfully. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.

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nice couple life

There's never enough time to do nothing!

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enough-time enough

I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor.

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To the children who loved Harry Potter, I want to say your enthusiasm was the real magic. I so enjoyed being on the journey with you. And to the adults who bought the Harry Potter books and devoured them, I just want to say, those books were for children.

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real book children

The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

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blow thank-you sweet

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

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There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

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ballet army men

The only thing I can think of is my favorite album at the moment by this guy called Father John Misty, and the album is called I Love You, Honeybear. It's just brilliant. It's the album I'm currently obsessed with. It is original, and the lyrics are fantastic and [it's] brilliant. So that's blowing me away.

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love-you father thinking

The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying what I know about them to every single scene. That's what it can be broken down to.

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broken real character

There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me.

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realization past years

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

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I don't [believe in God]. I have a problem with religion or anything else that says, 'We have all the answers,' because there's no such thing as 'the answers.' We're complex. We change our minds on issues all the time. Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

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