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 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 Image
I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Image
