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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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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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 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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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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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 don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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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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I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.