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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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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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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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of the world's best engineers, all concentrating on improving the product, reducing the cost, things of that sort.
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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.