Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 29, 1957

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

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I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.

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I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.

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I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.

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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

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I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

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I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.

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I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.

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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

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I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

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I don't torture myself.

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