I became conflicted in my late teens.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
Profession:
Actor
Born:
April 29, 1957
Nationality:
British
Quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis
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I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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I hate the domestic life.
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It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
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I broke things to get attention.
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It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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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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Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.
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I'm woefully one-track-minded.
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There are always practical decisions to be made about any character you're playing.
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When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.
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Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.
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It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.
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God knows, I haven't always been successful.
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I'm not picky, quite honestly.
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I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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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 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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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.
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The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon.
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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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I like to learn about things.
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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 towards it.
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Daniel Day-Lewis
I suppose it's a very highly developed form of denial, but some part of me completely denies that I'm a performer.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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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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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'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
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I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.
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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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Actors should never give interviews.
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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 like to cook things very slowly.
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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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A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands.
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I depleted myself to the point where I had nothing left.
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I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
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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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It must be hard interviewing actors.
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I don't torture myself.
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I'm not sure you learn anything on film sets.
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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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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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