Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor
1957-04-29
Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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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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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.
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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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Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.
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I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out.
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I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.
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I became conflicted in my late teens.
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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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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it.
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To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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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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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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