Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 29, 1957

I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

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A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

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If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.

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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

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Actors should never give interviews.

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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

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I like to cook things very slowly.

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I broke things to get attention.

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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to.

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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.

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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.

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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

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