Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

I own every share of my company, and I don't want to sell any of it.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

It can be difficult to run your own firm, but the trade off is fewer conflicts and more control.

In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

It's important my daughters learn from the hard work my wife and I put into this company. Who better to look out for your best interests than family?

The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.

Never sell, never franchise.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

Hollywood is probably the most active centre of film-making in the world, but it's also a very difficult place in which to find your voice... It was also a far more civilised industry in Ireland.

This is mine; this is mine. I run it, I own it, and I created it. And nobody is going to make any money out of it except me.

I own a company called Rain Industries.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

I want to have my own brand and there were things I couldn't do because of the 'Strictly' brand and the time involved.

Legendary is in the unique position in that they have the resources to take risks, which I think has really benefitted 'Pacific Rim.'

I'd love to have a production company one day, and I'd love to maybe venture out with other industries.

Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

I guess, in a sense, 'Audition' was a film that gave me an opportunity that I hadn't had up until that point. So that's definitely one that is important to me. Then there's 'Visitor Q' that kind of taught me that there are some kinds of films that can only be made as low-budget films that really wouldn't work as anything else.

I think when you sell your company and are no longer the master of driving it, it's quite difficult.

Lots of business owners spend their lives trying to land the whale - the single, massive, brand-name account that will fatten the top line and bestow instant credibility. But big customers make me nervous.

I'm far more interested in being a successful entrepreneur than being famous.