Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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There are programs that don't work.
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I need to work to feel well.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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It was really really neat to make the movie because there were mentally challenged actors in the movie. So that was really really cool to work with them and they were always really happy, and they made everybody really happy on the set too.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a character. That's how I learned, and that's what I was comfortable doing. And then, the first feature films, I'm sure I was no fun because I did not want to be spontaneous in that filmic way that really can work for you.
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A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
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I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
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I hear always the sad voices of summer passing like red winged birds over the high grass
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I love the finer things.
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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.
