Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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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'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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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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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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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 hate the domestic life.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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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 suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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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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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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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'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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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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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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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 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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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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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.
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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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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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I've got a serious-looking head.