Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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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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I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else!
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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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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'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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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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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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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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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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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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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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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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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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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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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.