Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Sense of humor. A girl who doesn't take themselves too seriously. And someone who is spontaneous. They're the three things for me that really attract me to a girl.
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I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my family. I don't look outside that and certainly don't care what anyone else thinks.
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Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
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When people 'succeed' they tend to party, when they 'fail' they tend to ponder.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
