Daniel Day-Lewis

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I suppose that anyone who does any kind of creative work some time in their life - especially as you grow into…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I don't torture myself. And I do the work because of the pleasure involved. I'm satisfying a compulsion I find nigh-on irresistible.…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that Im somebody else.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm…

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

— 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

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

— 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.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

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

Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I…

— 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

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

— Daniel Day-Lewis