Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

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• Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Inspiration, Knows, Capable

  Interview with TrunkSpace, openthetrunk.com. September 8, 2017.

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• Acting is about people. Other people. Otherwise, you're not acting, you're doing monologues.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  People, Acting, Monologues

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• The more articulate somebody is, the more suspicious I am of them. I like to feel that the important things remain unsaid.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Silence, Important, Unsaid

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• 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 beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Beautiful, Struggle, People

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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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Feelings, Storm, Teeth

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• I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Believe, Self, Identity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Landscape, Life Is, Enriching

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• I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Hate, People, Competition

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• Leaving a role is a terrible sadness. The last day of the shooting is surreal. Your soul, your body and your mind are not ready at all to see the end of this experience. In the following months after a film shoot, one feels a deep sense of void.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Sadness, Leaving, Soul

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• A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Character, Reflection, Voice

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• At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Design, Lucky, Way

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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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Long, Actors, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Ideas, Essentials, Failing

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• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Firsts, Innocence, Film

  City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.

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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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Decision, Hindsight, Made

  "Age of experience". Interview with Burhan Wazir, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2002.

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• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Life, Roles, Cinema

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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.'

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Jobs, Grateful, Thinking

  "The New Frontier's Man" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2007.

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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.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Long, Rooms, Hours

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• I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  People, Watches

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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 toward it.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Taken, Writing, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Giving, Lazy, Mind

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• 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 myself. I just love going to the movies.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Doe, Film, Spectators

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• Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Fog, Together, Film

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• 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!

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Romantic, Long, Movie Love

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• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Hate, Littles, Obvious

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