Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

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• 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 a…
• Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
• 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…
• I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.
• I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to…
• Just stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far. I will find you!
• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
• I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
• I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work…
• If you have a milkshake and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw and my straw reaches across the room and starts to…
• Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing
• I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished
• The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.
• Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
• You've just provided me with the makings of one hell of a weekend in Dublin.
• I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
• I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit…
• To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
• Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
• 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 I…

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