Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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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.
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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 live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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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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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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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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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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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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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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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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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 love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.