Daniel Day-Lewis Quotes
The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight.
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.
At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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.
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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.
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.
I don't know what impression you might have of the way I live. I live in a quiet place. I do not live as a hermit, though other people would prefer it if I did.
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.
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.
Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
I don't do all of this as an indulgence. I do it because I'm not a good enough actor to not do it.
The greater your powers of self-delusion, the greater will be the apparent efficacy of this untruth.
Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.
My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.
To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.
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.
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.
I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
