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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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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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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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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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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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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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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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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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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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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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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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've got a serious-looking head.
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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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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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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 broke things to get attention.
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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 thing about performance, even if it’s only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.