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Daniel Day Lewis Quotes & Sayings

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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

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting. — 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

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that. — Lucy Punch

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

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln. — 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

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do. — Daniel Day-Lewis