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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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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.
