Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I've been very lucky.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I like to learn about things.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Actors should never give interviews.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I became conflicted in my late teens.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I like to cook things very slowly.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

It must be hard interviewing actors.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

God knows, I haven't always been successful.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I would like to have children while I've still got the energy. But then I have the feeling that when I have…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

I've got a serious-looking head.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I hate wasting people's time.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not picky, quite honestly.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm woefully one-track-minded.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I broke things to get attention.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I hate the domestic life.

— Daniel Day-Lewis