Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 29, 1957

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

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Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

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I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.

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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.

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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

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I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

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Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

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There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.

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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

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How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?

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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.

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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

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I like to learn about things.

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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

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Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

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