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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.
— Steve Erickson
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I've been very lucky.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I became conflicted in my late teens.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis is my favorite actor walking the planet right now. He never ceases to amaze me.
— Les Claypool
I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!
— Aubrey Plaza
I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.
— Laurence Fox
How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?
— Daniel Day-Lewis
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I hate the domestic life.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I hate wasting people's time.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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!
— Daniel Day-Lewis
When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
My main memories of my father are of his illness.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I don't torture myself.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts.
— Sean Bean
Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
God knows, I haven't always been successful.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like Daniel Day Lewis or Jeffrey Wright.
— Kevin Daniels
I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I like to learn about things.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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
I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.
— Lauren Bacall
It must be hard interviewing actors.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm not keen on history being tampered with ... to any extent.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Actors should never give interviews.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I broke things to get attention.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm not actually a big musical fan.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I like to cook things very slowly.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I'm woefully one-track-minded.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
— Daniel Day-Lewis