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I've got a serious-looking head.
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England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I hate the domestic life.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I broke things to get attention.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I'm not picky, quite honestly.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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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.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
Daniel Day-Lewis