All Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
- I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead. Certain
- I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer. Completely
- I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people. Fairly
- I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do. Actor
- I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime. Any
- I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation. Always Felt
- I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles. Inspirational
- I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. All
- If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. Cabinet
- It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln. Abraham
- It must be hard interviewing actors. Actor
- My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day… Camera
- Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting. Acting
- The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight. All
- There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment. Been
- You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another. Compelled
- 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 the face and… Audience
- I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me… Avoid
- The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with… Been
- 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… Actor
- I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us,… Balanced
- In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died… All
- One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in… Became
- Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would… Any
- There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the… All