British - Actor | April 29, 1957 -
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.
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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.
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The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.
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I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.
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