Daniel Day-Lewis quotes - page 2

When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. (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.

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I hate wasting people's time.

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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do.

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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

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

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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

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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.

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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

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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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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to. (Daniel Day-Lewis)

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

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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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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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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

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I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

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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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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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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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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. (Daniel Day-Lewis)

If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

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I've got a serious-looking head.

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I'm not picky, quite honestly.

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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Occupation: British Actor
Born: April 29, 1957
Quotes count: 101
Wikipedia: Daniel Day-Lewis

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