Daniel Day-Lewis quotes - page 3

Actors should never give interviews. (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. View quote
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I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles. View quote
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I hate the domestic life. View quote
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating. View quote
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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting. View quote
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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. View quote
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it. View quote
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. View quote
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My main memories of my father are of his illness. View quote
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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 have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing. View quote
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I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation. View quote
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Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. View quote
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I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left. View quote
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I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I like to learn about things. View quote
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I became conflicted in my late teens. View quote
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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)
It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name. View quote
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I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father... View quote
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It must be hard interviewing actors. View quote
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I like to cook things very slowly. View quote
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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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