Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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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 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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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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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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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 made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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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'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.