Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes - Page 3

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• You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Creativity, Night, Two

  City Limits, April 07, 1988.

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• I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

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• There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Character, Decision, Made

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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

  American Movie, Wanted, Heresy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Warrior, Roles

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• The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Film, Terrible, Attraction

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate wasting people's time.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Hate, People, I Hate

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• If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Cabinets, Spirit, Makers

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• I've got a serious-looking head.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Serious

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• 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 person who's in charge of all that.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Knowing, Finding Yourself, Allies

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• I'm not picky, quite honestly.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Honestly, Picky

  "Daniel Day-Lewis: 'I'm not unapproachable'". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2009.

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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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Jobs, Years, Docks

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• Actors should never give interviews.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Giving, Actors, Interviews

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• To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Numbers, People, Know Me

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• Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Weight, Stuff

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• My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Curiosity, Periods

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• 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 in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Eye, Faces, Subtle

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• I hate the domestic life.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Hate, I Hate, Domestic Life

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• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Taken, Years, Acting

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• 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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Father, Mean, Way

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• 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, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Country, Parent, Custodians

  "In the name of the father". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Horizon, Way, West

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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

  Stuff, Faces, Deals

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• The word Amendment itself is an encouraging thing, isn't it? Because an amendment, it tells of a system of government that allows for the improvement of itself. Just move forward a little bit, one day at a time.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Moving, Government, One Day At A Time

  "Steven Spielberd & Daniel Day-Lewis interview, Lincoln". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 30, 2018.

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• I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Past, Feels, Compelled

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