Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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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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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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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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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 made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
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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 broke things to get attention.
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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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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
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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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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'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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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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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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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 find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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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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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.