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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— 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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I hate wasting people's time.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
— 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
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I've been very lucky.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I like to cook things very slowly.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
God knows, I haven't always been successful.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— 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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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
I broke things to get attention.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
— Daniel Day-Lewis
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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 have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm not picky, quite honestly.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I became conflicted in my late teens.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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