Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
Quotes to Explore
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.
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Eventually, the bad boy image affects fans' willingness to show up.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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I have a harder time finding somebody. The problem is we were growing professionally during the years most people were concentrating on being a person.
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We weren't allowed to watch TV as kids.
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My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
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What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence over young people than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
