Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Drunk, Getting

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Character, Deep, Personal

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

Time, Film, Takes

I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Time, Strange, Aware

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

Feeling, Storm, Teeth

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

Life, Live, Single

It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Family, Awesome, Name

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.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Sad, Great, Sadness

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

Time, Mind, Lazy

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

Working, Year, Jobs

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

Work, Long, Remember

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

Life, Everything, Around

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Father, Moment, Almost

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

Hate, Bit, Obvious

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

Serious, Potential, Perhaps

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

Work, Business, May

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Guys, Hands, Jail

Actors should never give interviews.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Give, Interviews

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.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Find, Eyes, Few

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.'
Daniel Day-Lewis

Job, Grateful, Last

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

Work, Age, Apparent

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Design, Point

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

Place, Keep, Room

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Themselves, Everybody, Capable

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Nothing, Again, Often

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: April 29, 1957

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