Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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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'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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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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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 hate the domestic life.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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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 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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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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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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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.
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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 like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot.
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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 broke things to get attention.
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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 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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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
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I'm not picky, quite honestly.