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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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I'm a pretty easygoing person, and it bleeds into the music. Even if I'm writing the most personal song, it's not going to come out totally serious; there's always a little tongue in the cheek.
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Playing dysfunctional characters or crazy characters is only fun if they're well written. So I have been lucky enough to be asked to play crazy people who are very well written.
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I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
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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.
