Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.”
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“I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“I was a savage for so many years of my life. There was some seed of determination in me that I was not conscious of. I was mostly consciously getting into trouble and drunk.”
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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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“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.”
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“A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.”
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“England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.”
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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.”
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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 it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.”
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“I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.”
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“At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.”
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“How can you be a recluse in a house full of children, even if you had the inclination to be, which I don't?”
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“Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German.”
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“There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.”
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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.”
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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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“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.'”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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