Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

British - Actor | April 29, 1957 -

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

Daniel Day-Lewis

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One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

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

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

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I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical 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.

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I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.

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

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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.

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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.

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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

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