Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 29, 1957

Topics

LifeMeWorldStoryPersonalMy Own

It's thought of as an eccentric thing for an actor to really try to maintain quality control through the whole career. Most people think, 'You just work. You just keep working.' And in some ways I wish I could be a guy who's just a workhorse.

John C. Reilly

WorkQualityPeopleControlThink

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

Robert Musil

BeautyBeautifulArtMeThoughtShe

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

Mavis Staples

GoodFatherSingingFeelSongsSang

I think everyone needs to know that I steal biscotti on Delta Airlines. People need to know that.

Jeffrey Tambor

PeopleThinkKnowNeedEveryone

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

Meryl Streep

ChildrenHealthImportantManager

No offense to Iceland, but Latin America is where the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden should settle.

Stephen Kinzer

AmericaSettleIcelandWhereOffense

What we know about the destination resort business is clearly established. But it's all about one thing, and one thing only. All of the razzmatazz and jazz we hear about facilities and everything else doesn't amount to a hill of beans. It's customer experience that determines the longevity and endurance of these enterprises.

Steve Wynn

BusinessExperienceDestinationJazz

I'm not a big oyster eater. But I know people who will sit at a raw bar and eat oyster for two hours.

Michael McKean

PeopleKnowWillOysterBarEat

For centuries, the arts and philanthropists have worked well together: look at the Tate family and the Courtaulds. If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

Lloyd Dorfman

FamilySuccessBusinessTogetherYou

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Swami Sivananda

PracticeMeditationBlissEternal

If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.

Shashi Tharoor

PathPastRoadYouIndiaNew

It took a while to adapt to life in London, but six months into my course at RADA, I felt very at home.

Sean Bean

LifeHomeAdaptLondonSixCourse

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