Quotes about Daniel Radcliffe

[Anne R Urbanski]

Since I'm fairly new to this group, I don't know how many of these have been
submitted previously, but here are some interesting quotes about Daniel
Radcliffe which I found at
<http://liquid2k.net/radcliffe/erised.htm>http://liquid2k.net/radcliffe/eris
ed.htm. Basically they reinforce the opinion I've had since I first saw Daniel
in PS/SS -- what some reviewers decry as "wooden" or "unanimated", others
recognize as "depth", "stillness", "maturity" etc.

Anne U

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Articles/Interviews 
"He can really focus on one thing now. His short-term memory has improved, I
think. He can now concentrate on a scene completely. It was difficult to start
with, separating the acting from what was going on around him. It was all so
exciting, and he's so full of energy. But now he can be fooling around one
minute, and switch into real concentration for a scene." - Marcia 
(Dan's mother) 

"He has a particular quality of naturalness and innocence. The camera really
loves him, and other children don't feel threatened by him. One normally
dreads
working with child actors, but in his case he was wonderful. We cast him for
his special qualities of gentleness and watchfulness. He has those in spades.
He has a great deal of charm and simplicity. He's very at ease with himself.
He'll be terrific as Harry Potter because of his great sense of fun. He's very
lively and energetic." - Kate Hardwood (Producer of David Copperfield)
 
"Dame Maggie [Smith] adored him. She was so fond of him she gave him a lovely
present, an astronaut's pen. He won't be overwhelmed by the Harry Potter
mania.
He's quite cool and calm about that sort of thing." - Kate Hardwood 

"He has a magical quality about him. He takes direction very well, and is very
expressive with his eyes. The scenes I had with him were a joy. Every now and
then you find someone who is completely natural, and he is one of those. I
wasn't at all surprised when he got the job, and am absolutely thrilled to
bits
for him." - Ian McNeice (worked with Dan on David 
Copperfield) 

"He's got a sense of wisdom and intelligence and a real sort of haunted
quality
that Harry Potter has." - Chris Columbus 

"We saw so many enormously talented kids in the search for Harry. The process
was intense and there were times when we felt we would never find an
individual
who embodied the complex spirit and depth of Harry Potter. Then, Dan walked
into the room and we all knew we had found Harry." - Chris Columbus
 
"Having seen Daniel Radcliffe's screen test, I don't think Chris Columbus
could
have found a better Harry." - J.K Rowling 

''He holds the film together. He's in almost every frame, Dan is an
11-year-old
with a 35-year-old heart. There [is] so much depth, so much going on behind
his
eyes, you realize: This is a kid who has lived a life. This is a kid who can
appear haunted and troubled by his past. Yet he's charming. That kind of
maturity is hard to find in an 11-year-old.'' - Chris Columbus
 
"He is extremely composed and watchful and self-possessed. He is very well
brought up." - Rebecca Eaton (a David Copperfield producer) 

"Daniel is quite a serious wee boy, whereas Rupert is very rock and roll." -
Robbie Coltrane 

"He is really funny, and he's clever." - Rupert Grint 

"Dan is the kind of guy you can make run 20 miles and run back again, join the
army, stay there for 3 years. Then tell him to climb Mount Everest and he'd
come out saying, 'Hi, can I do that again?' He's just so enthusiastic. However
long the hours were or however school was, he always had a smile on his face."
- Emma Watson 

"Daniel Radcliffe plays the Oliver Twist-like Harry with an unaffected,
intelligent approach that maintains his wide-eyed wonder yet grounds Harry
in a
realistic sense of loyalty and honor." - Kirk Honeycutt (HollywoodReporter.com
review)
 
"As Harry, Daniel Radcliffe has to carry most of the weight of this enterprise
on his slight shoulders, and he does a great job. Much of his performance has
to be internal, and Radcliffe brings an impressive stillness and resolve to
the
part. - Helen Stringer (TheMediadrome.com review) 

"He's a very nice kid, I'm very fond of him." - John Boorman (director of
Tailor of Panama) 

"The kid is just fantastic. For never having acted before, you know, he could
give me acting lessons." - Richard Harris 

"He is a lively, bright kid with an instinctive feeling for the camera. His
parents are very stable and supportive. If anyone can survive the hazards of
being a child star, and still live a normal life in the world of muggles, he's
the boy." - John Boorman
 
"When you look into Dan's eyes, it just cuts deeper. When we saw his first
screen test, it was obvious we were looking at a movie star." - Chris
Columbus 

"He's a writer's dream. I love it when I see an actor underplay things the way
Dan does. In a boy that young , it's remarkable. I'm used to American kid
actors who are very sitcommy. With him, there's something special." - Steven
Kloves (screenwriter for Harry Potter) 

"He's more confident, and it seems to have affected his look as he's gotten
older. He's starting to feel like a leading man now." - Chris Columbus (about
Dan in CoS) 

"They were great. There were a surprisingly low brat-factor. Daniel is
fantastic and very smart. He's got his head well screwed on." - Sean
Biggerstaff
 
"I saw this boy who combined a wonderful sense of curiosity, openness and
generosity with a warmth that wasn't sentimental or too cute." - David Heyman,
HP producer
 
"These children are nice, actually. They are not precocious and uppity, they
are just very natural and that's what I like." - Miriam Margolyes (aka
Professor Sprout) 

"You have to be very, very careful not to do anything that might make him
laugh. The twinkle in your eye can make him laugh." - Jason Isaacs (aka Lucius
Malfoy) 
 
"To find an 11 year old with a complexity of someone like Dan Radcliffe, was
difficult." - Chris Columbus


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