Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

Ireland, Actor
April 29, 1957

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship. Born and raised in London, he excelled on stage at the National Youth Theatre, before being accepted at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which he attended for three years.

Also known as Film Actor, Artist, Stage Actor

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Speak
- Just
- German
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Mother
- Focus
- Decision

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Up
- Together
- Film
I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Always
- Never
- Been
re: Abraham Lincoln. 'For whatever reason, and I can't explain why - that moment at which one is drawn into the orbit, irrevocably, of a life. I felt the tug of that orbit. I didn't know why; I was quite alarmed by it...'

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Life
- Why
You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Life
- Up
- Live
re: Abraham Lincoln 'Shall we stop this bleeding.'

Daniel Day-Lewis
- Stop