Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 29, 1957

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

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I became conflicted in my late teens.

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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.

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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.

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I hate wasting people's time.

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I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

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I'm not picky, quite honestly.

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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.

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England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

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When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

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My main memories of my father are of his illness.

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