"It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense"
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The line works because it punctures the myth that fame inoculates you against insecurity. “At the back of my mind” is the tell: this anxiety isn’t dramatic, it’s chronic. It’s the low-grade hum behind interviews, premieres, and fan adoration. Grint also quietly separates two things we tend to collapse: success and skill. Harry Potter guarantees visibility, not validation. “I don’t know if I’m good enough” reads less like fishing for reassurance and more like an actor noticing that the industry rewards familiarity until it doesn’t.
The subtext is about typecasting, but also about authorship. In a machine as tightly branded as Potter, individual performance can feel swallowed by the product. If audiences love the character, do they love you? Grint’s “inferiority complex” frames that doubt as internal, yet it’s shaped by a culture that treats child stars as disposable once their narrative usefulness expires.
It’s a rare moment where celebrity PR drops the armor and reveals the real cliffhanger: not whether the story ends, but whether there’s a self left after it.
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Grint, Rupert. (2026, January 15). It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-always-at-the-back-of-my-mind-that-acting-154754/
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Grint, Rupert. "It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-always-at-the-back-of-my-mind-that-acting-154754/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-always-at-the-back-of-my-mind-that-acting-154754/. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.





