Daniel Radcliffe opened up about his fears of success and failure as an actor. He also shared his viewpoints on love and relationships, and performing.

Dan discussed his work in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and The Woman in Black’s release, and how he’s adjusted to his first year after the completion of the Harry Potter films.

On fearing that his success won’t last:

“Yes. But it’s reality, not fear. It will happen, and I have accepted that. In a way it’s a great relief that I will never, ever do a film as successful as the ‘Harry Potter’ series. But neither will anybody else. Or it will take them a long time.”

On his belief that actors are fools:

“Yes, like we’re conning people and we’re not really any good at it.”

On giving back:

“I got involved in The Trevor Project [a charity which works to prevent young gay people from committing suicide] in late 2008 when I was in New York doing Equus. A few of my friends had made me aware of it. It sounded like such a fantastic thing. People need it. The suicide rate for gay teens is four times that of straight kids. I couldn’t believe that nothing like this had existed before. I think that any free-thinking person who becomes very wealthy and has strong opinions on things would get involved with something like The Trevor Project or scholarships for schools or whatever. Fame is very useful in directing attention toward those things.”

On being a romantic:

“I don’t know where my romanticism comes from.”

Be sure to check out this weekend’s issue of Parade magazine in your local newspaper for the full interview.

[Photo: Jake Chessum for PARADE]