Daniel Day-Lewis quotes - page 2

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 need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it. (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. View quote
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I hate wasting people's time. View quote
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I think some actors thrive on working at a much greater pace than I do. View quote
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How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie. View quote
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing. View quote
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching. View quote
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I like things that make you grit your teeth. I like tucking my chin in and sort of leading into the storm. I like that feeling. I like it a lot. View quote
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A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character. View quote
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For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors. View quote
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The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to. (Daniel Day-Lewis)
I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people. View quote
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I find it difficult to be in rooms now for long periods of time. I can usually take it for about an hour. Then I stride out. View quote
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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.' View quote
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious. View quote
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I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced. View quote
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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 of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. View quote
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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 one. View quote
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point. View quote
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. View quote
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. (Daniel Day-Lewis)
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it. View quote
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I've got a serious-looking head. View quote
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I'm not picky, quite honestly. View quote
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites. View quote
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