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I broke things to get attention. (Daniel Day-Lewis)
God knows, I haven't always been successful. View quote
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I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all. View quote
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A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands. View quote
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If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. View quote
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent. View quote
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I'm woefully one-track-minded. View quote
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do. View quote
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Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again. View quote
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When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself. View quote
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I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride. (Daniel Day-Lewis)
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 find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect. View quote
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve. View quote
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish. View quote
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I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. View quote
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I've been very lucky. View quote
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln. View quote
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing. View quote
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Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German. View quote
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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 catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. View quote
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I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face 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 don't? View quote
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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. View quote
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If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it. View quote
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. View quote
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