Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Hope, Place, Ireland

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Life, Possible, Breathe

It must be hard interviewing actors.
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

Together, Easy, Making

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Work, Next, Coming

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Curiosity, Period, Shoot

My main memories of my father are of his illness.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Father, Memories, Illness

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

Someone, Top, Camera

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.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Great, Home, School

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Time, Away, Acting

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Work, Find, Living

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

Strange, Off, Times

The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Time, Small, Last

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Before, Sun, Against

The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Whole, Guess, Weight

There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Character, Made, Decisions

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Moment, Wanted, Mark

There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Work, Yourself, True

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

Number, Defined, Untrue

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Often, Themselves, Public

We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Live, Deal, Repression

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Thoughts, Week, Throughout

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

Mother, Focus, Decision

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.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Work, Same, Wish

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

Made, Wrong, Decisions

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Actor

Born: April 29, 1957

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