Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 29, 1957

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Daniel Day-Lewis

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

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I've got a serious-looking head.

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God knows, I haven't always been successful.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.

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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

Daniel Day-Lewis

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

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It must be hard interviewing actors.

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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.

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I'm woefully one-track-minded.

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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'

Daniel Day-Lewis

I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.

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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.

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I hate the domestic life.

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I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.

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