Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
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By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.
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'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that.
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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.
