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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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 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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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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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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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 hate wasting people's time.
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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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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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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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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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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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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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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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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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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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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.
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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 became conflicted in my late teens.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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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.