Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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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.
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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 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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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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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 think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
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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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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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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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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 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 broke things to get attention.
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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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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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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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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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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.