Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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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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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 love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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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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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'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
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I've got a serious-looking head.
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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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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I hate the domestic life.
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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 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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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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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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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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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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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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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 broke things to get attention.
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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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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.