Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
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I hate the domestic life.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.