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 Copy Share Image
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
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… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share
