Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
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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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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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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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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 didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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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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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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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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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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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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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 feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
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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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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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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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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.