14 quotes by Daniel Day-Lewis

“At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, let alone American movies.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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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.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“It is awesome to feel you are carrying on the family name.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.” — 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.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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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.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not aware of it passing.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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“I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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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.” — Daniel Day-Lewis

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